Tourers

Heavyweight tourers — Honda Goldwing, BMW K1600, Kawasaki Concours 14, Harley's Touring family — are about real-world long-distance use. 800+ mile days with a passenger, full luggage, electric everything. The bikes a couple takes round Europe.

The category has held remarkably stable while everything around it has changed. Sales aren't huge, but the buyers tend to keep their bikes for years and trade up within the segment rather than out of it. Adventure bikes ate the touring middle class; pure tourers held the top end and the floor.