Hail
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I am seriously considering gettin a second bike. Specifically, a dual purpose bike. I have never ridden in dirt excpet for human powered BMX and mountain bikes so I do not want to go straight to a high performance off road bike. My only pre-requisite is that it be street legal.
My head is spinning from all the options. ...and not knowing if I like it or not I don't want to spend a ton of money.
I was originally thinking I would go with something like the Kawasaking KLR650 or BMW .
These bikes would be great entry level Adventure bikes. They both have great resale. They are also almost impossible to find used unless you have a quick trigger finger. The down side of these bikes is that I really have no wide open areas to explore near me. We are talking a one day trip to even get to anything like that.
What I do have near me is a lot of single track through Sam Houston National Forest. I am not sure that either of these bikes would be good for learing dirt on single track.
Because of this I am thinking I might start with an even less expensive dual purpose like a Honda CRF250L, Yamaha XT250 or Yamaha TW200. All of these seem like they would be good bikes to learn on single track and all are street legal. The TW200 I just think is cool. It does get muddy in the Houston are after rain.
What questions am I not asking myself that I should? The guys at the dealership think the most important question is the ratio of on to off road driving. Do you Agree?
My head is spinning from all the options. ...and not knowing if I like it or not I don't want to spend a ton of money.
I was originally thinking I would go with something like the Kawasaking KLR650 or BMW .
These bikes would be great entry level Adventure bikes. They both have great resale. They are also almost impossible to find used unless you have a quick trigger finger. The down side of these bikes is that I really have no wide open areas to explore near me. We are talking a one day trip to even get to anything like that.
What I do have near me is a lot of single track through Sam Houston National Forest. I am not sure that either of these bikes would be good for learing dirt on single track.
Because of this I am thinking I might start with an even less expensive dual purpose like a Honda CRF250L, Yamaha XT250 or Yamaha TW200. All of these seem like they would be good bikes to learn on single track and all are street legal. The TW200 I just think is cool. It does get muddy in the Houston are after rain.
What questions am I not asking myself that I should? The guys at the dealership think the most important question is the ratio of on to off road driving. Do you Agree?