It's happened to me a couple times. Last night a couple of young guys at a stoplight yelled to me and gave me the thumbs up. I have no idea what they were saying due to my FF helmet. Another time while gassing up a guy said, "That's a nice bike! Is it a Yamaha?" I said, "No, it's a Suzuki." "It's a Suzuki?? It's a nice bike!" Mind you, my bike is 14 years old and cosmetically has seen better days, and besides, I've painted it rattle can fluorescent orange for visibility. Maybe it's the Jardine "muffler" a PO put on it. I don't know. Do you get a lot of approval from strangers?

I don't know if it's oogles of approval, or "good luck keeping up with us" oogloes when I am off with other biker groups for group rides, etc.  It seems as they 'walk the line' of bikes they stop and stare at the single cylinder and sorta turn (I originally said "c0ck" but it changed it to "thingy"....crazy forum) their head sideways. I just smile and answer their questions, and smile even bigger when they are wrestling with their big tanks and I am zipping around having a good time.  It used to bother me, now I enjoy the strange looks. Not to mention I am having as good, if not better, of a time on my bike that cost about 10% or less (literally) than their big bikes.  

Justin is just evil minded, bad childhood or something

I once had an 8 yr. old yell something at me out the back of a minivan. His older 16 yr. old sister wanted to race me. Does that make me cool?  

I believe the basic styling of the bike is quite good, I've had one or two say they like it's looks. Whether that has anything to do with the ghastly, and I could say a lot of other things, little "cool" word I don't know.

Yes I agree bike looks good and I have same thing like that happen to me on the gas station it DO get attention. My bike is also not a best cosmetic condition   I was more getting it up for dependable raiding.

Fella that bought mine upon seeing me pull up to meet him, "darn Dude! That MF'r looks just like my uncle's ol' Sportster, Man!!"

Mine gets a LOT of double takes. Has been called a Harley, an Indian, a BSA, one old guy asked me when the Manx came back on the market. Age guesses range from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Absolutely nobody believes 2003 Japanese.

Of course, mine doesn't remotely look stock, the tank looks like an old Scott unit with the solo seat, full rear fender and high mount 7" headlight additions. The beaded tombstone windshield we finished yesterday adds to the con job pretty well.

Enjoy the looks and compliments. These little toy bikes have a very limited following in North America, folks have no clue what they are seeing. Other than something different.