Well good luck with that! You may have more patience than me. When I found out it was going to be another 18 months (I missed out by a couple of months, if only I had started 2-3 months earlier), I started looking for my LAMS bike. The idea was it would have become my full bike. But due to how much I had to spend, an inexperience with bikes I choose poorly for my needs.
The Boulevard is a great commuter, but poor tourer. It lacks long distance comfort (for me particularly, but my friend also commented on it a little while ago too). Also a 10L tank reduces the range to a little over 200km. As far as I can see a bike like my friends (a 750 Honda Shadow) would have been perfect, but for LAMS. It's power to weight is easily within the limits, it's not that much heavier than my bike, but just putting itself out of the running due to the 750. It's got a bigger tank, and is much more comfortable to sit on.
I am seriously considering getting one on my full! But this time I will go for some longish rides on some sport bikes, tourers, and others to find 'my' bike. I guess the wait might mean I have saved a bit more money to get something real decent!
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