I've had sport bikes, sport touring bikes and touring bikes. Sport touring are good for one up, getting errands done, but nothing, and I mean nothing eats highway up like a goldwing or bmw or harley set up for touring. I evolved from sport to touring gradually. If I had garage space, I'd get something sportier, but loving the Wing I have now. Some touring bikes suck unless you're on the highway, like GL1800's big harley baggers. this one does fine around town, and exceptional on the highway- I went with the GL1200 for those reason, not $$ Over the last year(s) I'm more fond of touring Ohio's country side and sneaking into Pa. Posture on a sport-touring bike kills me after a while, I just quit scraping pegs thats all just my .02, your mileage may vary