My wife is starting to get into motorcycling, and likes riding with me. So I need to investigate getting a larger bike, better for two-up riding. This won't happen for a few years, I think. We'll make due with the bikes I have now. One of my current bikes is a Harley Sportster, and I love it. So my natural assumption was an Ultra Glide. But we sat on one. I am 6'6" tall, and I found the cockpit surprisingly cramped. My knees were well above the gas tank with my feet flat on the floorboards. And the bikes have a guard/frame around the saddle bags that pressed into my wife's calves while her feet were on the floorboards.
We both like the looks of the new Indian Roadmaster, and will be checking it out soon. And the Victory Cross Country Tour is nice, with the cheapest buy-in price by a great margin. If it is as comfy as the the others, it will be hard to pass it up given the $5 to $7 thousand dollar price difference compared the HD or Indian.
The only thing I know for sure is that we will choose a bike from one of these three American manufacturers. And who knows, in a few years when we pull the trigger, there may be something new on the market.