If you get a chance to ride a Rune, do it - it is an amazing machine.
My biggest beef with Honda was, it seemed, they tended to engineer everything right on the edge - if you modified them for more power, they blew.
Quality, they had quality, that is for sure.
And along the same lines, the 919 - seemed the first year was the fastest, then they slowed. They added a cat to the exhaust in 2005 I think, plus the suspension "improved" which added weight.
Ah, they are motorcycles, makes them all good. :D