Yeah. Me too. The tech of it is way more exciting to me than the actual bike. I've never found myself wanting to own one... Though I did own an 'orphan' bike from Suzuki. An automatic transmission 350. When I got it, the transmission had 'difficulties' and I learned more about it that I really wanted to. But it was a part of motorcycle history and I was happy to have owned one.

By the way, Honda made a damn serviceable Automatic in the time frame that flopped miserably, too. Manufacturers are just now starting to revisit the idea...