Cutting edge or dull edge....
Personally, I don't believe an air bag on a bike is something I'd want. I seem to remember a distasteful joke about air bags or dirt bags and Hardleys but I can't remember it for everyone's edification.
When do bikes go from bikes to cars. When I started riding, we had kickstarters, drum brakes points and condensers and shook like a wet puppy. Everything was chain drive and lighting was feeble and we had fun, took trips and lived to tell about it.
What I miss most is the kicker. When you had to lift your leg, bring the engine to just past TDC and stomp it and maybe it fired and maybe not, that was communing with your bike. Especially when you stalled it in an intersection.
Bikes today are wimpy. I don't want them to get more so. That's why I'll never have a Goldbling. Somehow I picture Goldbling riders as overweight baby boomers with so little mechanical ability, it's beyond them to even know how to change the oil let alone where the drain plug is at.
In summary, if Triumph decides to sharpen their "cutting edge" to Goldbling standards, they will loose me as a customer and I have more than one Triumph as of date.
I like to "meld" with my bike as I ride it, to become one. That would never happen on a Wing or a Glide or a Bimmer. I find the R3 is comfortable and capable without going to extremes just like my T100.