Well you ride the ride that makes you happy. That's what motorcycling is all about. Just don't put other people's lives in danger. If you would have not came in brand new to the forum guns blazing and stuck around for awhile, you would have realized people here like to talk shit and poke fun, sometimes it goes too far or someone takes a joke seriously. I don't ride the way I do to be popular BTW. I ride my style of riding because I enjoy it. I don't ride wheelies on the highway, but I also got almost 15k miles in for the year, and enjoy a going peg scraping corner at full tilt. You do what you like to do, you don't need approval from everyone and most certainly don't expect it.