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That's actually a really good question.
I wash mine occasionally, and ride it in the rain. However the 1050 has one issue with water. Each cylinder has it's own coil that presses down into the spark plug access hole. These bikes have a tendency to collect water down in these holes, which causes all kinds of havoc. The seals on the coils are a really bad design.
Luckily there is a kind of fix. The problem is the bike allows water down in the holes, but then it can't evaporate out. What you do is pull the coils, and when you reinsert them you slip a little plastic tube down along the side where it seals. Something like the little plastic pipe that comes on a can of WD40. All it has to do is allow the water down in the hole to evaporate out when the engine is hot.
This is kind of a kludge of a solution, but it works. The other possibility is to grease the rubber seal heavily and cross your fingers that no water gets down there in the first place. You won't have nearly the problems you may have had with your Hardly. Other than this issue they're great. Treat it like you did your R1 and you should be fine.
Good luck. The worst that can happen is it will start to run crappy and you'll know exactly what it is.
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