they handle fukking great - for a full boat touring bike ... I guess they can really be banged over and will carve just fine.
The kind of bike you can embarass sportbike riders who bought bikes 500% better than they are - as riders.
... but of course where I live corner carving is mostly a myth ... they are too few and too far between to really pick a bike based on that.
As I remember it ... there were only two complaints ... they are heavy as hell (naturally) ... and the motor is 'buzzy' at some RPMS ... probably not worse than a typ I-4 from that generation.
.. and they are still making them 18 years later.
I'd like to have a bike with hard bags - and maybe even a back box.