Dual Sport Bikes

[He Man]

this is retarded.

Aside from whatever dumb shit classification Estoma is trying to do,

My "dual whatever the make the beast with two backs" does what I want it to do. Which is be road legal and ride dirt tracks, fit my budget and gets 50mpg, oh and its $35 a year to insure.

[the_Journeyman]

Yea, the bars are different, I changed them last winter. 

The first pic is older and was the result of following a map connecting two different back roads.  The map showed this connection, but it didn't tell me it was several miles of what we call 'pig trail' to get there.

The second one is on a road that I frequent.  There are quite a few miles of very nice twisties, but unless you want to backtrack about 30 miles, you run this 5ish miles of gravel to get to the other side of the ridge.

I've actually considered putting Avon Distanzias on because here in the rural NC mountains, I do a lot of gravel and dirt connecting the fun roads.

JM

[ungeheuer]

JM, you really should buy a 1200cc KTM.

Or learn to enjoy BBQ snake like me and He Man 

[the_Journeyman]

I'll at least give BBQ snake a try!  I'm pretty adventurous when it comes to food.  Ive I ever get to Australia, we'll take a ride and find something to BBQ!

JM

[kopfjäger]

I'm sorry 'long time post whore observer', but did you say 'dual sport'?  

[He Man]

I'm sorry 'long time post whore observer', but did you say 'dual sport'?  

I want to go to there.


Took the DR for a 200miler today. Wow this thing is FAST.... NOT!!!

Some things i noticed

Its SCREAMING at 85mph, i mean litterally balls off the wall.
It does 70 pretty much all day though.
I REALLY need a windscreen.
It turns very strangely due to the tires and their different size, it sort of feels like its on rails until you're off that squared tire edge and on the corner. It has a fine line of predictability and not. And I haven't gotten used to knowing exactly where that point is.
It gets 53.7mpg on the highway at 75mph.
Its sort of uncomfortable if you dont remind yourself ot scoot forward, but scooting forward is the only way to get 85mph and to get out of the windstream, the windscreen should fix that.
Gas tank is really small, I need an acerbis.
Vibrates a bit more than Im used to.
ITs really freaking tall.
I hate the mirrors cause it makes lane splitting very difficult.

I am going to buy this surfboard mount so i can slip my board and ride to the beach!

[kopfjäger]

Its SCREAMING at 85mph, i mean litterally balls off the wall.
It does 70 pretty much all day though.
I REALLY need a windscreen.
It turns very strangely due to the tires and their different size, it sort of feels like its on rails until you're off that squared tire edge and on the corner. It has a fine line of predictability and not. And I haven't gotten used to knowing exactly where that point is.
It gets 53.7mpg on the highway at 75mph.
Its sort of uncomfortable if you dont remind yourself ot scoot forward, but scooting forward is the only way to get 85mph and to get out of the windstream, the windscreen should fix that.
Gas tank is really small, I need an acerbis.
Vibrates a bit more than Im used to.
ITs really freaking tall.
I hate the mirrors cause it makes lane splitting very difficult.

I am going to buy this surfboard mount so i can slip my board and ride to the beach!

It's a whole other animal riding these on the street at speed in that upright position. My KTM will start to float the front wheel if I don't keep moving forward on the seat. I enjoy the game myself, keeps me focused. 

[The Architect]

He Man, have you looked at the sprockets? I'm sure if you change out the front to a sprocket with one less tooth it will help with the top speed.  But you'll lose some low speed grunt.

Kop, have you tried to work on the front fender?

[kopfjäger]

Kop, have you tried to work on the front fender?

[The Architect]

Oh, 

Good luck.

[The Mad King Pepe']

Its SCREAMING at 85mph, i mean litterally balls off the wall.
It does 70 pretty much all day though.

At 7000 RPMs its Mean Piston Speed is just over 19m/s. You could ride it like that all day for years on end and it would be fine. That thing is so overbuilt, it's ridiculous.

ITs really freaking tall.

No, you're really freaking short. Go sit on a DRZ400.