Thinking about going from Gen1 to a gen 2.. thoughts?

[AyJay]

It was a bike you could ride for 300 miles, dump the luggage and scrap knee sliders on alpine passes. And do it all again tomorrow.

The Aprilia Futura.
Nobody bought it.

Ah. Now I did look at the  Futura and Falco. They were interesting bikes and what stopped me buying one (I test rode the Falco) was the Gen 1. Simply, it had a load more engine and was much smoother than either. That's another thing about the Gen 1, you can trickle that baby down to 20mph in 6th and it will still pull away without much complaint. Yes, most inline 4s will, but V-Twins will jump clean out of the chassis if you try that.