Jay:
Way back when I was much younger and much poorer (early 1970s), I rode across Canada on a Honda CB360 Twin.
I made it, but it was not fun. The bike barely kept up with the flow of traffic on main highways (it had trouble maintaining 110 km/h in winds and up hills), and it had no wind protection. It would not have been possible to put wind protection on it, the bike could not have handled the aerodynamic loads.
My suggestion to you is that you confine your trips with your "classic" to within a few hundred km's of home. If anything every breaks while you are away, you are going to have an awful time getting parts for it. Plus, unless you restrict your travel to a couple of hundred km's a day, I think you will get fed up with the performance of the small bike pretty quickly.
Consider also that "only 22,000 km" might be considered low mileage for a Gold Wing or a ST1100, but it is pretty darn close to the design service life of a small bike like a 400 - especially one that is 30+ years old.
Michael
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