Holyshit you guys sound funny... Is that they call hillbilly English in your parts... We have those around here has well... But they mostly live in the woods.... Im sure there's some insest going on but I'm not sure... What I know for sure is that they all look alike...
I still don't know what your going on about the CB 500....I'm sure it would make a nice in town commuter.... There's no way in my mind I could stand that thing on a multi day ride... Doing 500 plus km days... We have different types of roads and sometimes we need to run on highways to get to piont a to b.... At speeds of 120 kph...and overtake transport trucks.... The ktm 1290 is just purring at those speeds... Your would be winning at almost the redline..... It would be alright I guess if you were riding with a bunch of mopeds...