I went green

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I finally did it! I found the Nomad I wanted. A 99 two tone green. After riding a Vstar 650 for three years....it's a SWEET ride! I am very pleased with my purchase even though I travelled over 1000 miles to get it.

I now have to adjust my riding style which is a pleasurable change. I do have one or two technical questions that I wonder if it's endemic to Nomads or I need to do some tuning. I fear it's the latter.
1. When I give it throttle, especially when starting out in 1st, the engine accelerates slowly then seems to catch and accelerates very quickly at which point it idles fairly fast. When I come to a stop, downshifting, the idle speed stays high until I come almost to a stop and the bike seems to force the engine to slow down to a normal idle speed.

2. At highway speeds, if I give it a lot of throttle it seems like the engine accelerates for a second or two with little acceleration of the bike then after those couple of seconds, the bike accelerates as I'd expect. I'm not complaining, I just want to know if it's normal.

Thanks, I love this bike!