I know some will say the ride, the look, the power, the smoothness but being an old truck driver and this is my eighth motorcycle what really caught me by surprise other than the rest of the obvious benefits was the fact that I could back this bike up using the mirrors. I had never had one that I could use the mirrors to back it up. Just totally caught me by surprise. I was also surprise that it was miles ahead of my M109R Suzuki Boulevard in handling and just overall better in just about every category. A wonderful machine!