Dude, greetings from the UK! Yeh cos they don´t know anything but jap bikes & harleys! Speed III is a cool mutha of a bike, yeh its a bug, a bug that´ll give em all a run for their money! So u got summit diferent, live with it, deal with it, love it, ride it, enjoy to be different from the maddening crowd. mine turns heads every where, and its nuclear (roulete) green! Just ride it!