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This Grom is the most fun city bike I've ever had the pleasure of owning. Ripping around Keene NH on this thing is ridiculously fun, it's like it was made for roundabouts. After replacing the crappy factory rubber polygonal shapes they call tires with Michelin Power Pure SCs and doing the $15 fork mod, the Grom will scrape pegs everywhere and not even yawn. Yes a Hyundai Accent will put it to shame in a straight line (found that out yesterday), but it's not about that at all...it's all about cranking the throttle wide open with every gear change and trying not to grind your boots down in every intersection. And everybody laughing, pointing and waving at you. Oh and doing wheelies at 10mph.
Then you add to that how stupid cheap it is. Grom was $2000 from some surfer stoner dude in Maine, oil change was $10 with whatever oil I could find (Rotella T6 is gold) and $5 worth of gaskets, fork mod was $15 and a trip to the hardware store, which increased fork travel by 1 inch and increased damping with 20w oil, tires were $100 and $0 install with screwdrivers and heater hose, wheel scratch repair was $0 because it's a fuckin Grom, gas is so cheap I feel bad using my credit card (~$2 every fill up, so like once every 2 weeks), the 14T front sprocket I just ordered was $9, and if I ever crash it, painted fairings are $30.
If you live in a town or city, get one, or at least borrow and ride one. I promise you'll be laughing maniacally if you have any sense of humor and enjoy having fun.