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Fladdem
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PostPosted: 22:23 - 19 Feb 2015    Post subject: What say you? Reply with quote

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. Laughing

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PostPosted: 22:34 - 19 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

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stevo as b4
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PostPosted: 23:42 - 19 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Thumbs Up ) 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
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 22 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Thumbs Up

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.... Thinking
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PostPosted: 20:45 - 22 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've little experience of off-road style bikes bar my tdr250 (which I highly recommend if you can afford). But for more traditional style thumpers I've always had a soft spot for the Dr800 big, never ridden one, not even read much about them, but I find them very appealing.
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 22 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

TTR600 was alright, easy to kick once you've worked it out Laughing

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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PostPosted: 22:21 - 22 Feb 2015    Post subject: Re: What say you? Reply with quote

I like the DR600 - I believe the KLR600 is similar - both are kickstart versions that are a good chunk lighter than the electric-boot 650 versions. (Edit - didn't realise it was revvy/watercooled.)

DR600 handled off-road fine - excellent on green lanes - think DR600 with more midrange and very linear delivery - and have had it around a farm motocross track with plenty of jumps etc (In sm trim too!)

KLX is water cooled, but I do like the idea of one - more cash will get you a XR650 however.
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