“I thoroughly enjoy every minute I spend on my Suzuki S40 Boulevard / Savage.”
I had to do a search for those. Great lines and I bet they would be nice for around town. Or as a good starter bike and then maybe a Sportster of some flavor. I’m with you about the big heavy touring bikes.
Well obviously I’m going to sing its praises. Here’s some of the things that I personally like about it
When you ride it you know you are riding a motorcycle not a car on two wheels
Being a large single and essentially square with bore and stroke being the same is a very torquey engine. Peak torque is reached at 3200 RPMs. It is a very muscular feeling engine between 20 and 60.
Mikuni carburetor electronic ignition. So it is a very simple, relatively speaking, machine. No computer.
While the bike is not heavy and it is a single cylinder, and I don’t know that I’d want to do great distances on it at high speeds, the engine is quite capable of tooling along at 65 for as long as your rear end can take it.
It’s nimble and easy to swing around in traffic.
You can find some interesting owner reviews on YouTube. There is a guy who goes by the nom de plume of the rabbidHedgehog who does a review when he bought the bike for his wife and then does another review a year later.
Actually when I went out looking for bikes my ideal if someone would build it for me would be a nice light 750 twin. Maybe about 400 lb.
The Kawasaki w800 was close to perfect in that regard but it was never sold in the US. And they stop production recently.