I almost replied similarly, just means they didn’t sell many BASE models.

I live in a relatively rural area outside a city “highway loop” and I see them all the time here. Someone down the road at a small business owns one so I see that one all the time but there are plenty around here and often wrapped in some weird colors.

Great, I bought one like 6mo ago and have it running on frigate…

<sigh>

October 2016, 1093 miles in around 18h on a 2006 Honda ST 1300

No desire to repeat that, it was pretty miserable.

I combined this into a work trip, The direct route was about 700 miles and it went great, I based this “it went great” I decided to extend the trip home to get my saddle sore 1000 (iron butt). The trip up was my dry run / test trip.

The key factor that made the return trip worse was the weather. It rained for the first few hours, and was about 10°f cooler the combination of these had me uncomfortably cold for a large portion of the ride. I had a two piece gortex suit so I stayed dry but the overcast and temperature was just cool enough to really impact the trip.

I still have the bike, it has about 55k miles on it now and I try to commute on it whenever the weather permits!!