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I don't understand what is a positive in this direction? The only positive is that it's not another 1100cc overweight monster. It's a small displacement overweight monster with poor suspension and pointless electronics.
If you call 150 kg ready to go bike overweight - what do you call all those bikes who are + 200 kg dry or + 250 dry???
It would have been great with a few kg less - but overweight - nonsence!

Does this bike have more electronics than other similar bikes?

Poor suspension? Have you been riding the bike?
Very few bikes nowadays comes with top end suspension as standard. I think that this bike is probably not an exception. But most Hondas comes with quite decent suspension - and I belive this one will too.
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If you call 150 kg ready to go bike overweight - what do you call all those bikes who are + 200 kg dry or + 250 dry???
It would have been great with a few kg less - but overweight - nonsence!

Does this bike have more electronics than other similar bikes?

Poor suspension? Have you been riding the bike?
Very few bikes nowadays comes with top end suspension as standard. I think that this bike is probably not an exception. But most Hondas comes with quite decent suspension - and I belive this one will too.
I call those ridiculous. But this, abs. Seriously Honda? They're following BMW's shit buckets and still call it a rally. Oh, and ite won't be ready to ride but under sprung.

Do you consider the suspension on it's brother or Yamaha's 250 top end?

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Come on man, these are budget bikes, complaining about the suspension is a waste of time.

I'm excited because anyone who's had to pick up a bike multiple times or muscle it through some rough ground knows that every kg counts.
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I call those ridiculous. But this, abs. Seriously Honda? They're following BMW's shit buckets and still call it a rally. Oh, and ite won't be ready to ride but under sprung.

Do you consider the suspension on it's brother or Yamaha's 250 top end?

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Have I called anything top end at all? Where did you get that from?

I meant exactly what I wrote, almost none bikes comes with top end suspension nowadays but for what you pay you get decent suspension. And as Tea wrote above here - its a budget bike. Any bike will need upgrades nowadys to get the full potential out. But for people considering buying 250 cc advbikes I dont think that top end suspension is their highest priority. And anyhow - a light bike will not require so much out of suspension just because its lighter.

My main concerns about these bikes are as mentioned above: could have been a bigger gas tank and it could have been a bigger/more powerful engine, for example the one from Cbr 300. And a bit lighter would also have been a positive thing.

Both Kawasaki, Suzuki and BMW have presented what one can call "mini advbikes" this year - and although the Crf 250 rally could have been better it seems to me as the best bike of those four.
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. But most Hondas comes with quite decent suspension - and I belive this one will too.
really? which one...
let's see, crf250l - horrible suspension unless you're riding a football field, nc750x - very bad suspension unless you riding German autobahn,
crf 1000l - bad suspension unless you stick to gravel roads. All recent "adventure" hondas are setup for 165 cm tall guy weighing 60 kg...
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