I have touched a whitetail's tail once while on a Ninja...
I haven't ridden or even touched the new Africa Twin,it has much more power than the old one. Here you can get ten old ones for the price of one new, I"m on my second old one now. Enjoy it a lot.
Back to Road King : it got Progressive Monotube front and Progressive 412 rear suspension last year. New Metzelers. I like my vehicles safe. At that point I didn't know about the Twin Cam tensioner problems... I might have passed the whole bike,had I known that there's nothing documented about those tensioners in otherwise good service history booklet.
I'm learning to like the easy laziness,cruising around with no destination. The floorboards are still a bit scary, I do scratch the tarmac every now and then...