MOPED ARMY

I've had several KE's and a G5, a G4TR and the 2012 KLR650 (pictured below), now I am riding a 2007 BMW G650X Country (pictured below KLR picture).

Dual sports are great, I use mine as a commuter some days and taking it camping in the middle of the mountains others. If I could only have one bike it would probably be a mid-size dual sport bike.

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I kinda like Honda Monkeys which are considered a dual sport, so yes.

I love Enduros. Have been moving that way for a few years.

Had a 1991 Yamaha XT350 I did some porting to and then a kid made made a great offer and it is gone. Great bike.

I then moved to a 1985 Honda XL600R. It is on the lift now getting a very good porting job, 11:1 piston, Cam for low end torque, pipe, SS Valves, Better Springs and so much more. This will be my "Keeper Enduro". I went on a number of runs with it last year. Loved the fit and feel. For me it is my most comfortable bike for long distance. Not a big fan of the new tall bikes. I just do not need the ground clearance. Love the older ones like the XL600.

But my first Keeper Enduro is my wonderful CZ 175 trail. I just love the bike.

Pictures below.

I have always loved dual sports, I have a '73 XL175, a '80 TS250, '74 TS100, and the newest is a '86 Cagiva Elefant 125.

I have a couple Yamaha GT80's & a couple Honda SL70's. All but one of the Sl70's has a title. I plan to do some dual sport mini riding soon! My main ride this year will be my 1980 Yamaha Gt80 (red). I have the top end off right now as Im replace gaskets. Also have new crank seals, chain/ sprockets, tires, cables, and etc...

Ive debated making my Honda CB250 Nighthawk a dual sport.

Jimmy, you don't have any turn signals for a GT/DT80 that you'd want to sell, do you? I'd like to get mine back in road-worthy shape so I can ride it around when my mopeds aren't working.

Blast from the past 1981 or 1982 not sure, I’ve never owned a four stroke dual purpose bike in my life though I worked on several of them,

I don’t think I’ll ever own a four stroke bike but Who knows,

Two stroke or no stroke at all! Ha ha ,

Loved my 74 f11 Kawasaki 250 but I didn’t love my Yamaha 1978 DT 125 until I put a dt 175 jug on it and then it was nothing as far as power wise as the Kawasaki F7 175 on my profile picture but it kept up with traffic OK,

5’ 10 at near 200 pounds the Kaw 250 pulled me around like nothing, especially after I changed the chamber to mx type and drilled out the airbox air box and upjeted,

I beat 550 Honda’s and Harley Electra glides and any car up to 75 miles an hour

I loved those days when you didn’t have to insure motorcycles so you could have several of them at one time,

Them days I’d have 6-7 enduro 2t bikes in my garage at one time!

My sweet Rose 2012 KLR650

i have a '98 KTM 300exc (2stroke!)

one of the few street legal 2strokes... i mean anything is possible, but ktm, gasgas, husq/hussenberg are the only companies that have street legal dirt bikes (easily i should say). the titles DONT say "offroad use only"

she rips... as you can imagine. took it to ride n chatter rally last year. stands up in 5th at 70mph lol

eh, imo there's 2 catagories of dual sports.

1) dirt bikes that can be tagged (which my ktm falls into)

2) street bikes that can go offroad - KLR650's, DR650's, XR600, etc... anything bigger then a ktm530

I sure as shit dont want to take a KLR 650 on a single track or most dirt bike trails period (sure they can, but you really shouldnt..). too big and heavy. i WOULD however put a large tank on a KTM 450 / 530 exc and either with knobbie tires OR an SM set up, happily ride a long extended distance. sure my 2stroke isnt the best for long distance highway riding but hell it'll do it if i needed it to? draw backs of a 2stroke dual sport, mainly used for around town bike, bar hoping, getting from trail to trail (edited)

I had a Suzuki DR200 for a year or two. It was great for blasting around on fire roads, backwoods gravel roads and technical trails. It had a very, very low first gear so I could climb up some steep dirt grades. I got rid of it as I live in the city and found less and less time to ride it where it did best.

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my dr200 was the biggest pile of shit. I also rode it a lot and still had an awesome time. I took that through some pretty crazy dirtbike shit, but very few distance trips. In retrospect I'm quite certain it just had slightly bent valves which cause progressively worse problems until it would just cool off and not start again, leaving me stranded and in a very shitty mood.

It made me want for a DR350, those seem light and brutal enough to really be an asshole offroad and you can still manage high enough speed and range to cover serious distance.

All I have now is a TS50, it's a watercooled 6 speed 50, it's super stupid fun around town and pretty damn capable offroad, not like competitive or anything but will demolish trails, you just don't let up, it's so light you can peg it and you're only going 30-40 but folks on bigger bikes are slowing up and you just kinda huck it around and keep blasting. But I agree with the 2 classes and think mostly I'm more interested in the regristerable dirtbikes. WR250 would kick ass, 90s 2 strokes even more so. But for me the bigger desire in an enduro isn't being able to go long distance and also go offroad, I want a dirtbike that I can fuck around locally without having to trailer it to trails. This was mostly coming outta Atlanta, where I lived I was 3 miles up the road from a couple big patches of abandoned that were a fuckload of fun to fuck around, I could just detour out there on my way home after work, get dirty and still get home for supper

love 'em. i had a sick xl250 a couple years back. i sold it to a buddy and he moved away, but he just moved back and he still has it! i told him i'd give it a tune up pro bono. i want to get a klr or something someday. something highway capable. i also have intentions of making a endortster out of my 883 sportster. guys do it. the biltwell helmet dudes made one recently and did ok racing it i think....baja? u seent dat?

sportsters do make really cool (looking at least) dirtbikes.