Which do you think is more difficult if you’re a manufacturer: Designing a completely new motorcycle from the ground up, or rethinking one of the most beloved models that your company makes? This is all hypothetical, of course, since we’ve never designed a motorcycle.
Still, it seems like coming up with a worthy successor to a beloved bike must be a lot of extra pressure. On the one hand, you know that technology needs to evolve, or else people outgrow it, and it loses relevance over time. On the other, there’s a nagging sense of necessity to make only the correct changes that riders will respond positively to—and above all, to not mess up this thing that they already love.
