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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 03-04-2009, 08:07 PM   #1
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KTM 690 SMC

becuase, well just look at why the hell not?
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Old 03-04-2009, 08:10 PM   #2
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motard or adventurer tourer, easier to go just ride by yourself. Dual sporting and dirt is more a group thing. A smaller adventure tourer can still do some light single track and tourer, a motard is pretty much just has a soul purpose.
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Old 03-04-2009, 08:24 PM   #3
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Motard with 2 sets of wheels.
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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.
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oh i forgot to mention

if it was affordable the SMC but realistically i will probly get a mini motard before i get a bigger one
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:32 PM   #6
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Tard FTW My preference is the WR250X, cause I could hooligan it all over and if I dropped it, wouldn't cost so much to fix back up

And it looks bad in black!!

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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.
Exactly what she said
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Old 03-05-2009, 08:26 AM   #8
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Motard no question.

You can slap a set of nobbys on there is you want to off road it.
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Old 03-05-2009, 09:18 AM   #9
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Motard...for the smile factor.
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Old 03-05-2009, 01:30 PM   #10
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Motard no question.

You can slap a set of nobbys on there is you want to off road it.
I don't know much about motards, but I wouldn't think it would be suitable for offroad use anymore if you actually set the suspension up for street use. You could leave the dirtbike suspension, but you would sacrifice street performance for the versatility.

My vote would go to a serious motard if there was a good place to use it. The small tank prevents you from going too far from a gas station at any given time, and the infestation of the gap makes having such a narrowly focused bike less desirable. Maybe you could pick up a motard and club race it fairly cheaply in between street use.
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