I had had tiny bikes, and I had had medium sized bikes, and had a very practical and useful bike - that had started boring the **** out of me. I looked at what to get next. It had to tour, it had to appeal to me, and if it was a little insane and very cool that didn't hurt. Started looking, found the Touring, saw the black and red, fell in lust, found one that hadn't sold and was 5 grand less than local MSRP - traded my bike in for it and haven't looked back since.