:wtf: Have you even ridden an EX500 Nightshade? As a former EX500a (the crappier older one) rider, I have to disagree. I'm even a lightweight at only around 155lbs (was around 140lbs when I rode the EX though). I'd ridden it on the freeway plenty of times from the SFBA to SB and SLO as well as back roads and rarely had trouble with wind gusts from rigs and the like. In the right hands, my own hands definitely excluded h:, the little EX is a very capable street performer. I'd recommend the 93+ d model though which has a few updates but is basically the same thing. It even gets great gas mileage and is cheap to insure.

That said hondapilot, if your parents are helping you with all your expenses, you may just have to wait it out until you are financially independent. Sucks but that's life. I'm even contemplating selling off my current bike for now to go back to school but we'll see.

Another thing, I see nothing wrong with a person's parents helping them out with school expenses and even car payments. When I was younger, I used to get jealous like so many people on this board. I've never had a new car and I used to insist on paying for my own clothes and my own classes to be "independent". Now I realize that if one can provide a headstart for their kids, why not give it to them? I know many people who've been handed things from bicycles to new cars and even help with purchasing homes by their parents and they're still perfectly well adjusted individuals. What's more, no matter how much you or I may think they're spoiled brats, nothing's going to change the fact that they've got the headstart and that's that. So my advice is to take care of your own business and just respect others the way you'd expect to be respected.