When it comes to luxury touring, bigger really is better. Each of these titans of touring weighs in excess of 900 pounds and has a load capacity greater than 400 pounds, all the better for carrying massive, torquey V-twins, cavernous luggage, a rider and passenger, and all of the niceties that keep them comfortable on the road for days on end. Photos by Kevin Wing.
In our last luxury touring comparison (Rider, August 2015 and on ridermagazine.com),

we put the 40th anniversary Honda Gold Wing up against the Harley-Davidson Ultra Limited and Indian Roadmaster. Even though the Honda?s turbine-like flat six and sportbike-caliber chassis offered a very different riding experience than the American V-twins, we found them to be very close in terms of wind protection, comfort, luggage capacity and standard features?the things that put ?luxury? in luxury touring. Read our review of the 2018 Honda Gold Wing Tour DCT here.
Harley-Davidson?s Touring models have been on a steady diet of improvement for the past several years. But for a luxury tourer with ?Ultra? in its name, the Road Glide Ultra lacks some features and needs more rear suspension travel.
Here we are nearly three years later and the landscape has changed. For 2017, Harley-Davidson?s Touring lineup got the new 107ci Milwaukee-Eight engine and Showa suspension, and Indian?s Chieftain and Roadmaster touring models were upgraded with the Ride Command infotainment system. For 2018, Honda launched the sixth generation of its ...