I get the feeling you must be a bit younger? Probably in your early 20’s? Reason I say this is because when you get closer to 30(26 or older normaly) you start worrying LESS about what other people think you should have or be doing and worrying/thinking more about what YOU want to do to make YOURSELF happy..are you getting a Motorcycle to make the people around you happy or to make YOU happy. I mean honestly …are you that worried about what other people think or their oppinions of you and what you ride or are you willing to do what YOU want to do becuase YOU want to do it. When I got a 250 people that knew I was getting a bike said the same thing..I could care less what they think/thought…know why? cause they were wrong I like the 250 Ninja and its plenty of bike for me and does everything I want it to do. I honestly dont even know if I will upgrade…I just dont really need anything bigger to be honest…I didnt worry about what they guys at work thought…mostly because I dont really care what they think that I should be getting.But then again I was never really one of those peer pressure caver-inners(new word) I looked, did research, then bought what I thought best for me..not what someone else thought was best for me.