I have tried this bike on more traditional roads. While I agree with many of the comments above and applaud the incredible technical feats, I'm not so taken with the automatic transmission. There are two reasons for this. First, I saw none of the described behaviour of blipping throttle, and matching ratios. The bike could and DID change gear in corners and over roundabouts, unsettling it and making me a little apprehensive. Secondly, the hand operated gear controls are a bad idea. The switch between the manual and automatic mode is easily tripped with the right hand when you brake, and this leaves it in first gear as you accelerate away again - which is very disconcerting. Secondly, the paddle shifts are on the left handlebar - and easily caught when you are trying to indicate coming up to a corner - with the same effect as you accelerate off. So you can't easily tell what you have mistakenly triggered. The 'drive' mode wants to be in 6th gear at 40mph; the 'sport' should be the default setting. There is noticeable transmission backlash, and that can unsettle the bike on braking. Honda; fine, wonderful engineering, terrible ergonomics. Take the paddle shifts off the left bar and put them back for the left foot to use and reposition the manual/automatic lever. Reprogram the electronics to sort the glitches in road use and you will have one fine road bike. I would not buy the bike I rode, but I would look seriously if it was sorted properly. Oh, and have a fuel gauge that measures not guesses.