Hi, i can agree more. Forget about those who say that´s a women´s bike. I´ve just completed my second year with my TU250 and i just couldn´t be more happy. i ride every day to work about 60 km by the shore from Lisbon to Estoril in Portugal and its absolutely amazing. I already had a CB500 and a XJ600 but i was spending lots of many... now i´m happy. I also went to Algarve to Faro motards reunion and they all loked at me so surprised because i was riding that bike for 600 Km... and they laught a lot to... i don´t really care. you souldn´t care about that to...Best regards.