Hey,
Thanks again for your overwhelming responses! That little doubt I still had about going for this dream bike has now been brushed off for good

Arsenalguy, Maida Vale here, but currently at the office in Brentford (so just a 5-min ride away from Hounslow)!
I'm originally from Austria, and probably loads of you guys have had the opportunity to go for a cruise through the Alps, but this is something I'm really looking forward to.... There's some awesome routes I can tell you! But I can't wait to go and explore Blighty by bike since I haven't been to many places here (Norfolk - which I'm sure is a cruiser's paradise -, Bristol, Sussex, Birmingham).
What really surprised me after getting back on track with motorcycles/cruisers was that there hardly seems a market for 250cc or even 500cc any more.... or was I not looking hard enough? The smallest cruiser >250cc Yamaha now do seems to be the 650 DragStar. Any particular reason for that? Or is it just in the nature of bikes being developed now with ever more bite in mind?
Cheers,
-J