At the Kawiyamahonda dealer we go to, the one guy we dealt with never wanted to let us test ride anything unless it was used. When we bought my wife's Vulcan 1500, we had to test ride on an older one that had some different features than the one she wanted. When I bought my Vulcan 1600, he wouldn't let me test ride it, but I knew it was going to be a lot like the 1500 so I bought it anyway.
That sales guy moved into another position, so when I went to get my Connie, I talked to another guy who's been there a while. I was looking at the FJR and the Connie, he asked if I'd ever ridden one, I said no, he says "you want to?". I said of course, and told him the other guy never let us take out new bikes, and he was dumbfounded. He said that's not their policy at all, and that I can ride anything I want. He said they typically won't let people take out sport bikes or ST's, but because we are long time customers we were welcome to ride anything we want. I took out the FJR for probably 45 minutes, came back, hopped on the Connie for about 20 minutes and knew it was what I wanted.