Seems to me this is the right place for a little introduction....
Alongside my V11, I used to own a Honda Transalp 650. For in town, bit of offroad etc. With my car ageing and starting to be troublesome, I decided I wanted to do my commute by bike as well. But my Transalp is no fun on the highway. I sold the Transalp and bought another Italian*:
*Funny thing: the Honda was secretly also built in Italy, in the same year as my V11 was, 600km elsewhere...