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Well, there are more kinds of bikes than just cruisers and sport bikes. My bike, a Suzuki DL1000, has a very neutral and comfortable riding position, IMO much more comfortable than any cruiser, as it doesn't place all your weight on your butt. As for the 919, it's really sized for smaller riders. I'm folded up like a pretzel on it. I'll agree that most race replicas and sport bikes are not very comfortable, at least to me. I think the guys who say they find them comfortable are lying :) .

The V-Strom is pretty close to a sport bike to me. Maybe not as aggressive a riding position as a race replica, but your feet are still more behind than under you, and you're still leaning slightly forward.

Uh...how small a rider is the 919 allegedly built for? I'm 5'1", as in sixty-one inches, and I felt like I was folded up. That's just wrong.

Cruiser egos suit me fine. Hell, the first thing I do when I buy one is put baby apes on it. I like to sit upright and slightly reclined.

Who knows, I might even skip the dyna and make my next bike a geezer-glide and be done with it.

By the terminology of the motorcycle industry, the V-Strom is not in any way a sport bike. As for my feet, they're ahead of my butt, and that's plenty far forward. Personally I don't know how people can be comfortable on or properly control a bike with their feet stuck way out in front of them. Really, to say that my bike is anything like a sport bike is laughable, and mostly says something about how narrow your frame of reference is. I sit bolt upright. Your average sportbike these days has your body leaning forward about 45 degrees and forces you to carry a lot of your upper body weight on your hands.

And unless you've got a windshield, I don't know how you can be comfortable riding at any sort of speed hanging off the bars.

BTW, my insurance company does not consider my bike a sport bike. I find it comfortable enough to have done an 1100 mile day and then get up the next day and do 600 miles.