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Waaaaay past the Rebel.....last long time friend was a BMW R1100RS that gave me 65k miles before someone else wanted it more than I did. I'm aged now and fondly remembering tooling along the back roads on the Dream in the 1960's....was more fun @ 60 mph( in my recollection at least) than cruising the interstates@ 90mph and hustling the curves. Time to slow down again and catch the scenery. There has to be a middle ground; rode with Hd guys in the day between the Honda and the Beemer,,(there were 3 Sportsters...my dad was a fan of flat track so he brought the muse)-the XLCHs were the first super-bikes before the soon-to-arrive era of Honda fours and the Mach and Z series of the Kawasaki world., but HD gave up on advancing their engineering for style and I no longer need 100 HP to prove anything to myself. An acquaintance has suggested to load up a Ural ( now that they've become a bit more reliable)and roll across the country on the backroads now that business no longer calls on a daily basis...but those CA77 qualities: reliable, affordable, comfortable and really quite capable (a bit too small by todays standards and my height) are still whispering in my ear....It had some style....wasn't trying to be a race bike or some copy of a cruiser- Soichiro could have copied the Panhead or the Indian Chief or Scout....and it had enough weight to be as stable as 1964 engineering could imaging for the mass market.
Be well