Originally Posted by Zephyr11

Ooh, you like cars! Analogy time then. When I was in high school, everyone wanted a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Even better if you had a Spyder. They were pretty sharp looking those years. But as you know, the Eclipse is all show, no go. It's a cheap car that had to hit a certain pricepoint, that they made look pretty to appeal to a certain audience, but doesn't have anything under the hood. Same with a cheap bike...it has to hit a certain pricepoint, it looks pretty to appeal to a certain audience, but it isn't actually performance oriented.