My very first motorcycle was a brand new 1980 KZ 440 A - 1. I put 33,000 miles on it in 3 years and drove Webster Florida to Lander, Wyoming, 2.100 miles ... Albuquerque, NM to Webster, Florida ... 1,700 miles and back and forth from Albuquerque, NM to Lander, WY ... 700 miles each way. I did that 700 miles in a day Many days I put 500 miles on the bike and enjoyed it. One trip from Denver to Albuquerque had me driving over Raton Pass between NM and CO on I-25 in a snow storm. I rode over 20 miles of that in about 2 - 4 inches of snow. Luckily there was almost no traffic.
All this driving was without a passenger and usually with a duffel bag behind me and a knapp sack and radio on the tank. I have never had a bike with a windscreen or a fairing and all my riding in those years was with an open face helmet and goggles. I did have a folding foot peg on each front down tube. I would have thought I'd died and went to Heaven if my bike had a flat seat where I could change the angle of my legs and flat handlebars to keep my armpits and elbows out of the wind.
All of my bikes since then have been used and the first after the 440 was a Yamaha SR500. I always had black and blue marks on my right leg. If you stall on a hill and need to re-start? Been there, done that. Hopefully, never again. My next bike was a KZ750 B. Great bike but heavy, about 100 lbs. heavier than a 440. After that, all my bikes were Yamaha XS650s.