The Rune hasn't been made in years...neither has it's "base model" the Valk. The Rune edition was made in limited numbers for only a couple years and I'm sure someday that "fugly POS for faggots" will be worth bouceaup bucks. The styling isn't really my cup of tea either, but I don't see why you need to go off bashing something because you don't happen to like it's appearance. Calling a bike "for fags" is just one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard, and from my experience is reserved for when a HD rider gets smoked by something in a race they started, then that bike is for fags. I smoked some HD a while ago(on my 500cc Magna no less), and at the next stoplight the guy "came back" with, "well, at least I ride a real bike, not some faggy Honda" and then hauled his ass out of there as fast as 60 horsepower and straight pipes would carry him. Real loud? Real expensive? Real shitty? I guess I'll never know what he meant.
The Valk's have a strong following just like the Max, and while it won't compete in the quarter mile, they have absolutely endless torque on tap and are known to run virtually forever. The author of the "Life is a Road" books rides a Valk with(when his last book was published a couple years ago) about 120k on it and still going strong.