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View Poll Results: Which bike would you get?
Motard - drz or similar 29 61.70%
Pit Bike - mini motard setup 1 2.13%
Dual sport/adventure touring - ktm adventure/bmw 1200GS 15 31.91%
dirt - mainly single track/trail riding 2 4.26%
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Old 03-12-2009, 10:29 PM   #61
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wow, never seen one burn like that before
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Old 03-12-2009, 11:26 PM   #62
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Thats sweet... i like the brakes in the right of the pic.
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Old 03-13-2009, 12:00 AM   #63
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I don't like dirtbikes and didn't like tards untill recently. I'd like to have one but why are most of them 250's? just not enough umph to them.
If they are built like my buddy's KTM dirtbike 250 then it'd have shitloads of umph to it. I road an old NX250 that was slow but fun to ride. However, my buddy's 250 is just crazy fast.

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For a while I looked at that and thought it was like a gnome with it's mouth open. Or a tree that fell and looked like a gnome.
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Old 03-13-2009, 12:23 AM   #64
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If they are built like my buddy's KTM dirtbike 250 then it'd have shitloads of umph to it. I road an old NX250 that was slow but fun to ride. However, my buddy's 250 is just crazy fast.
these are 4 strokes, I haven't ridden the DRZ400 but have ridden the 250's from Kawi and Yamaha. not enough power on the street from my test rides anyway. but then again, I ride an 06 ZX10R and there aren't that many bikes that impress me for grunt.
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Old 03-13-2009, 02:04 AM   #65
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So you're leaving it dual sport? Interesting.

I'll be getting a DRZ for the street in a couple months. Right now my priorities are elsewhere...
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Old 03-13-2009, 10:59 AM   #66
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Yeah new challenge and a way to improve my riding that I don't want to pay for at the track and too stupid to do it on street.

Plus dirt in this area is fuckin fantastic
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Old 03-13-2009, 05:29 PM   #67
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Yea I had an '02 DRZ400E,I was getting electric start motherfucker! Of course I modded the piss out of it to make it more "dirt worthy" Here's a couple crappy pics,my good pics went down with my hard drive crash last year....
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Old 03-13-2009, 08:18 PM   #68
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Tard it.. because out of those bikes, that is what *I* would choose. My other choice would have been adventure/touring but I'm not tall enough for 90% of those bikes.
BMW has started releasing bikes in low frames. I have a 27 inch inseam and flat foot my GS.


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Dual sport. BMW GS650 or the 800

See I would enjoy a Motard but I have discovered literally hundreds of miles of county roads and fire trails here in teh Ozarks that I am dying to see. They lead to some real dramatic and awesome scenery, but a motard wouldn't have the range or carrying capacity I would. I would also commute on the thing as my Ninja hates 30 mph city traffic...
Touratech has tank conversions for the 800 & 650 (twin) that will increase the fuel capacity to 9.5 gallons. It is not on their website yet but it is in their catalog.
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