Personally, if your “riding” buddies are making you keep up, you need to find new riding buddies. Just my opinion, but riding buddies should never make you keep up at and/or past your comfort level and ability. Other than that, fine post.
Personally, never listen to anyone who tells you in seriousness you have a girl’s bike. Like said before get what suits you best at the point in time you’re in. I, myself, am planning on having a stable of horses of different types of bikes.
My immediate plans are to get an 08 sv650sf for track and then a motard. Met some peeps that ride dirt and that looks fun as hell. After that a cruiser of some sort… not sure what though. I like the aesthetics of HDs. I’ll look totally funny in full leathers, though. But who the hell cares? It’s my ride and if you look in the vids and pics section, there’s a vid of a dude knee draggin’ at the track on a goldwing. 
Edit: I think I’d rather get a duc first before a cruiser bike…
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If there’s anything more important than my ego
around, I want it caught and shot now…
