As devils advocate I have to say I've just sold my yamaha fazer thou and the guy that bought it had one before and had both a vfr800 and triumph strint 1050 to replace it and reconed they were both complete cr@p in comparison, I've never had such a keen buyer for a bike before so would probably now never even think triumph.
I have bought a yamaha TDM850 and absolutely love it, a real b road blaster, any hint of patriotism now gone.
Back in the day is the trouble, the world moves on and they didn't, I seem to recall the dinosaurs did quite well but you don't see many now. (other than at the wooden boat show)