The trouble is they won't... I'd love to be surprised, but look at how road biased the 600's and 1000's are compared to say, an OW01/R7. I'm not talking about performance only, but I really don't think any of the big 4 would bring out such a small (as in size) class of bike for the road again, like the MC21/28, 3XV, VJ23 etc.
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