My confession is I use to ride with my wife as a passenger exclusively....then one day she got the bug ( I think it was more of a control thing) so I bought her a Suzuki boulevard.flash forward 5 years later I bought the b ...it is a standard so it doesn't have a backrest and she says she doesn't think she needs one( she rides pylon occasionally) well let me tell you after riding this bike a little while and loving the feeling of the power coming out of a curve or the feeling of smoking that Harley that wanted to see if he could ( he couldn't).....my confession is I would rather ride solo