Don't pay any attention to the dumb@sses! Those little boogers are some kind of fast. I had a GS450 and that's only a two cylinder and if I wound the rpm's up it would wheelie and fly!
Yeah, a GS1150 was faster at the track...so, what?! I'm riding on my street and to work and the store...in traffic.
Never let anyone's dumb@ss comments discourage you. When I was a teenager, you could kind of hurt my feelings with comments about my vehicles. A bike is a bike is a bike and it's yours and it works really good and it's fun and it's inexpensive to operate and they can bite your @ss!
I'd love to have a 400 Bandit to play with. There is, or was, one on eBay recently and it was close to me. I almost got it, but it had a dent in the tank and I don't like tank dents, nor did I feel like fixing it, so I missed out. I think a water-cooled 4 cylinder 400 is cool!