Well, first off, you have to remember that very few other manufacturers have a V-4 in their stable, and even fewer in a longitudinal configuration. So anything that could potentially compete isn't necessarily going to have all the same features. At first glance, this thing looked a little more upright to me than other sport tourers. In all the dressed trim, and at that angle, it kind of looked like something more substantial, like a truer middle-weight tourer. But now that I'm seeing other pics -- including one with rider -- it is looking more like a naked with touring options.
I don't know. It certainly seems like manufacturers more and more are throwing bags on anything big enough to hold them. Only Honda took middle-weight touring into the comfort direction yet still away from the traditional cruiser bagger. So far. Whatever the others do or do not do, I have not the remotest desire to look for anything else.
