The non-lowered verison is the SX, basically a hooligan naked. I personally love the clean lines of the EBR's and find a lot of the new stuff coming out of Japan and Italy to be very overwrought and busy. On the Ulysses though, even the EBR fans have been screaming for an ADV EBR to succeed that design. The EBR site has even had a mystery future model AX listed which we all think will be the Uly replacement. As far as reliability goes the bikes are solid, the 2014 had some first model year issues and my RX is 2016 bike number 7 off the line so it was subject to a couple issues with some soldering station changes to the fuel pump line (that's why its in the shop now). I've ordered several parts directly from EBR (Quick Shifter, Tall Windscreen, replacement Rider Peg) and they always ship very quickly. I know there is some hesitance due to Buell/EBR history but I truly think they've got it right now. The 2018 release sub $10K bikes will really help them over the top, I hope.