I fucking love my motorcycle. If you're thinking of getting a scooter, don't. Just get like a light weight 650cc motorcycle. Mine gets around 55-60 mpg, and you don't have to feel like a homo. I almost bought a scooter but I'm so glad I didn't. My motorcycle didn't even cost that much more than one, brand new.
Long story short, everyone go buy a motorcycle.
Also, in response to the post directly above me, mine's a belt drive and is nice and quiet 
My mom has a 250cc hahaha. My dad's is an 800.
Does she take it on the freeway? I would crap myself! haha 800 is a good size.
She does, on Interstate-81, every day it isn't raining or very cold. Her commute to work is like 20 minutes up the highway. She also frequently rides it up Giant's Despair, a really steep and windy road up the side of a mountain around here. [Okay, not quite a mountain--it's a little over 1,900 feet high, and to be classified as mountain it needs to be 2,000 feet high, so it's really just a big hill. But the road up that one side is a really steep incline and it's really windy. People can never believe she rides a 250 up that thing.]
She's a small woman, so she doesn't dwarf the bike or anything. She took my dad's 800 to work the other day because her bike wouldn't start. When she was going home, she knocked it over as she was coming out of the parking lot and couldn't lift it back up herself, lol.
Loud exhausts are used so that other drivers know that there is a motorcycle behind them even if they can't see them.
That's the thing. It sucks that bikes are so loud, especially in the city and at night when things are quiet, but it's a necessary evil. Cormacaroni's neighbor is a huge douche, but at the same time, I bet he's safer while riding because people driving cars and big SUVs are aware of him.
