>tfw only bmw makes a shaft drive adv bike that handles like a sports tourer and isn't made by italians
I don't mind chains, but I'd love if more companies would offer shaft drive on their adv/touring bikes. I was looking into an r1200gs, but they're just so expensive still, and I don't wanna deal with the increasing amount of integrated electronics on the newer models. I'll probably end up getting a vstrom 800 in the next few years, but I hate that it took emissions forcing companies to come up with parallel twins for bikes like that to come out.