Fascinating, W, and very much in tune with the conclusions I regretfully reached after my GL1800 ownership (AND the Traxxion changeover I did to it). I'm afraid it all adds up to enough to discourage me from moving to the F6B. Many thanks.

I demo road an F6B on Tuesday at Americade. It was,mass usual, a pretty tame ride, but it did tend to give me tow conclusions: (1) at least on that particular demo bike, the suspension felt pretty good, but (2) there's just no hiding that still massive weight (about 200 lbs over my current sport-touring BMW K1200GT).