I can't see any reason why the addition of water cooling and a little more power will make the Himi any less reliable, it's progress. I wouldn't call a water cooled DL650 unreliable or that difficult to home service and the gen 1 is about as basic as bikes get, ditto with other Japanese basic single and twin cylinder w/c bikes. Not so sure on competition as much of the 125 up to 650 competition is Chinese, and I whilst I wouldn't not buy a bike using Chinese components (there's no way to avoid it) I will never buy a Chinese made bike, full stop, due to their human rights abuses and the whole Tibet thing. As another poster wrote, "they can sod off". The other thing putting me off Chinese bikes is a bike mechanic released a youtube vid a while back where he'd tested oil from a selection of bikes at their second service and almost all the Chines branded bikes had "unacceptable" levels of metal fragments in the oil indicating sloppy tolerances and poor build quality (and I can't for the life of me remember who it was). The Himi has proved itself in the hugely popular 411, but a surprising number of people do sell them on rather quickly and revert back to touring on something with a little more oomph, except for those using them as second bikes. The new one provides this and hopefully will prove to be every bit as simple to maintain being a relatively simple big single. I had a KTM 640 Duke II for years and despite being in a high state of tune (mine had been fettled), it remained reliable and easy to work on, and that 640 motor was likely more complex than the new 450 Himi.