Thanks for the video.
I had a BMW K1100 in 2001/2002. Great machine that spanked several sport bikes on CA 198 (near Coalinga), the Ortega Highway, Palm to Pines Highway near Palm Springs, and round the Julian / Ramona loops while I was on a SoCal engineering project. Yeah, it was a tourer meant to replace my 2-wheeled pickup (an 83 Gold Wing) that died while on the project there. But the K-bike moved quickly and gracefully, and the smooth transitions at speed is what kept it ahead of the more edgy sportbikes on anything but a straight line run. (Or maybe it was rookie riders I was up against. Not sure.)
But, despite a youth misspent on hot-shoe power slides, wheelies, and the reckless driving tickets that went with them, I'm now a Go Far guy, not a Go Fast guy. So I'm aligned with Macka's observation. Indeed, the reason Honda went from ST-1100 to ST-1300, and Kawasaki went from Concourse 1000 to Concourse 1400, is because the market demanded more horsepower. And it's bragging rights only that drives that market since most of the riders wouldn't know the edge of the envelope if they saw it coming, and wouldn't get close if they knew how thin the edge was (like those of us who've gone over).
Sadly, I think that's much the same reason the NT only went for two years here in the states. It didn't carry the hype the market demanded.
But I guarantee, unless things have changed since 2010, the NT can stand on the rear wheel. It's just a bit trickier and a bit rougher landing with linked brakes messing up controls when aloft. So if you're not familiar with the techniques, don't try it for the first time on an NT. Find a beater dirt bike in a junk pile, first.
C'mon...How many are gonna confess to trying it with their NT?
You've got one, so far.