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I'm planning on leaving from NY to Patagonia in 16 months and I am on the process of choosing and buying the equipment for the journey! Honda just released this NC700X It's a brand new model so I do not know if it would be a good choice to choose it. I like it because it makes 60 miles per gallon and it is fuel injection while my second option would be the Kawasaki KLR650.
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Haven´t ridden the NC700X yet... but it seems like a road bike, that has some visual and ergonomical resemblance to an enduro bike.. looks a bit weird to be honest. Whereas the KLR650 is a proven, tough machine for all sorts of roads, and even off-road.

So they are two very very different machines. Both could probably do the trip, though, it really depends on what kind of routes you plan to take. And there are many other options in those categories to choose from, if you for some reason decide that it´s not going to be either of those two.
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I get around 70 mpg on the NC700X.
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I get around 70 mpg on the NC700X.
70 miles per US gallon??

This bike has been achieving excellent MPG figures in road tests published in motorcycle magazines here in the UK; from memory, the NC700 just beat the BMW G650GS (single cyl, 650 cc) with a MPG figure of about 78 MPUKG (miles per UK gallon) for a range of types of road riding (in one particular mag).

I think it is of interest that the engine design is a parallel twin, which is growing in use by various manufacturers, particularly compared with the other main option for 2 cylinders, the V twin.
Honda have taken the 1400cc 4 cylinder "Jazz" (that's what it is called in the UK) car engine, "cut it in half", and used that for this bike.

Having said that, there is not much interest within these fora for very modern bikes; I've just looked back in the posts here in Honda tech for the past year.
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Yes 70 mpg U.S. gallons.While I understand the NC700X is not a true "Adventure Bike" and certainly not meant for hardcore off-road use.I think it is more of a modern standard motorcycle,more along lines of the Triumph Bonneville and the Honda CB750.A bike that you can use for most anything.
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Yes 70 mpg U.S. gallons.While I understand the NC700X is not a true "Adventure Bike" and certainly not meant for hardcore off-road use.I think it is more of a modern standard motorcycle,more along lines of the Triumph Bonneville and the Honda CB750.A bike that you can use for most anything.
The so-called "adventure bike" has not been too well defined - that's probably just as well against the day that the fad wanes and there are loads of them stacked up in the motorcycle dealerships (as is tending to happen now with sports/race replica bikes if you can believe what some folks in the trade are saying).
The twin cyl parallel has had renewed interest for a while with a few bike manufacturers (Kawa versys, Triumph x various models, BMW x various models) - much simpler in the design and cheaper to manufacture than a V twin.
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Heh Wallace, Well I think you can't go wrong with the NC700X. I've had mine now for 2 Years. 40,000 K's. No problems. After market parts are now becoming more available. Just now installing stiffer springs front & rear. Should make a differene especially on rough roads. When loaded down with camping gear. Recently installed 1" fork extensions ( from VTX extreme ) made a nice change in short radius turns & a bit more ground clearance. Over half the K's on the bike are off the beaton track. ( gravel roads logging roads ) I live in BC Canada so there are lots of those. Love the low centre of gravity, easy to pick up when it's laying on it's side.
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