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Originally Posted by Squily
+1 on CRF250 (or rally for that matter)... you will be restricted on weight - subframe is only rated to about 155kg...
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I usually travel with 8KG on 4 week trips to asia, add maybe a tent (maybe i will mainly stay in hostels, not sure yet) and the motorcycle clothes and some spare parts and tools...should be around 30KG of luggage maximum. With my wheight its 120KG, but i will try to lose 10kg beforehand, so maybe 110KG of loadup. Should be fine.
EDIT: I've just found out that there are more light adventure bikes coming. In 2017/2018 they want to release a Suzuki V-Strom 250, BMW G310 GS, KTM 390 Adventure and Royal Enfield Himalayan, maybe the WK400Trail also gets available in Germany. I atleast know now that i don't want a 650ccm+ bike
The Problem I see with the Honda CRF250 Rally is that the tank is very small and it might be superior to the other bikes in case of heavy off-road Biking but i am not planing to do tracks with it or something like that, i will avoid every highway i can avoid (by highway i mean something like Autobahn btw, i never remember if the right word is highway or freeway :P) with SOME lose roads or some tracks across fields. So roads a car can pass, i will not ride throu forests n shit
Probably the others are better for me then since they offer some more power and are still not very heavy.
So the Competition will be:
- Honda CRF250 Rally
- Kawasaki Versys X-300
- Suzuki V-Strom 250
- KTM Adventure 390
- Royal Enfield Himalayan
- WK400 Trail
- BMW G310 GS
The Kawasaki and Honda are still my favourites tho, the Suzuki is not really capable of off-road riding and the royal enfield and WK400 are not available. KTM Adventure 390 is 2 heavy i guess. I somehow just don't want to buy a BMW, not sure why xD
Breaking it down i will testride the Versys X-300 (maybe with more cross oriented tires?) and CRF250 Rally and compare them. I will wait a bit longer so i can buy used ones in late 2018/early 2019. Until then i maybe get an old Kawasaki ER-5n or Honda CRF600NA, as first bike probably a good bike, cheap and not 2 bad if i drop it. It should be fine for weekend trips in Westeurope / Germany.
Thanks for the help anyways, seems like this is a nice and informative community, glad i've found out about it!
I will start a blog soon (Hobby), maybe i will put some of the motorcycle oriented posts up on here aswell, even tho my english might be too weak for a blog :P