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Fladdem World Chat Champion
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Posted: 22:23 - 19 Feb 2015 Post subject: What say you? |
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If I were to ask about an air cooled thumper of about 500-700CC, what would you suggest? I would like it to pretend it can off-road, but not essential. It will be for pratting around on the road, occasional green lane if there won't be too much water around, the plan is to run it on Pirelli MT90's or something as a nearly-a-supermoto.
Essentially a bigger version of my TTR 250, the TT600R comes highly on my personal list of bikes to try. Don't care if it's a kicker only, as limited offroad means I should only have to start it every now and then. I say air-cooled because I love the look of massive fins, but I'm not completely adverse to something along the lines of a KLX650.
It can be faired or not, such as the Dominator 650 or DR650RS. As you might guess, I'm thinking of something from around about the turn of the century. It will eventually replace my TTR250, but I want to be certain it's the bike for me before I get rid of the baby, whenever that may be.
Thanks! ____________________ Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
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Ste Not Work Safe
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Posted: 22:34 - 19 Feb 2015 Post subject: |
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CR500? |
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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Posted: 23:42 - 19 Feb 2015 Post subject: |
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Erm I'd say XR600R really, as the best bike for the off road side of things, but still road usable.
If you want older, then an even better looking bike that's probably better biased towards road use would be the XL600R. (The one with the red engine ) I saw a bloke cleaning most sections of a local clubmans trial riding one of these too!
The DR600 would be another nice old bike, but my fave would be the more revvy KLR600, even though it's water cooled.
TTR600 would be another good option though, and probably equal near enough to an XR600. |
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Fladdem World Chat Champion
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Posted: 20:37 - 22 Feb 2015 Post subject: |
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My brain keeps circulating back around to the XR/TTR 600's. I hate to say it, but I think the XR looks better than the XL. I love the look of Mid-late nineties bikes. I think they look better than the modern bikes and not so dated as the 80's trailies.
This has just popped up on the bay of E:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-TT-600-R-BelGarda-not-XT-XR-KTM-Enduro-1999-original-low-mileage-example-/201293046583?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2ede002337
Looks to be something like what I'd like, with some road biased rubber chucked on it. Only issue now is that, I've just blown loads of monies on car insuarance, which ate into the big thumper budget. But with only six days till pay-day.... ____________________ Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
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P. Red Rocket
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Posted: 22:05 - 22 Feb 2015 Post subject: |
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TTR600 was alright, easy to kick once you've worked it out
I had mine for twatting around doing wheelies and such, but was alright on the road with decent gearing. When I down geared it with sumo wheels... it was fairly gash. |
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G The Voice of Reason
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 9 years, 62 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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