I love my 400ex it was a great bike to learn how to ride on. Now that I have moved on to the banshee my dad gets to ride the 400 and he loves it. He doesn't ride with me every time I go riding but, when he does he has a blast. Where I live we don't have dunes. all we have is tight trails, mud, and ruts so to call the 400ex a girl bikes is pretty stupid. Not everyone wants to go really fast in a straight line some of us just want to have fun.