The VTX is an extremely attractive motorcycle. The colors, the styling, the chrome: everything about it looks nice and promises a fun and powerful ride. The VTX is also a tank. It's huge. Sitting on it, I felt like there should be another rider down at my feet, operating the foot pedals while I steered. The reach to the bars was long (I could reach full lock, as the third picture shows, but only barely), but the reach to the foot pedals was by far the most comfortable of all the performance cruisers that I sat on. If the entire front end of the motorcycle were to be brought closer to the seat by about 2 inches, I think I'd really like this bike. As is, though, I have no idea how on earth to ride it. I think I'd just aim and hope for the best.

My thoughts from the saddle: This bike is a tank. I felt as though the front wheel was in an entirely different time zone than the seat -- looking out over the gas tank is like being in the middle of the Nevada desert. There's just this huge expanse as far as the eye can see, and you feel tiny and insignificant. My notes from the show, vertabim, go "if this bike could drive itself, I'd probably love it".

Honda's spec sheet