Bike categories

[bikergurl]

Have been reading the RiDE Rider Power survey & wondered what all the different categories mean i.e Adventurer, Street, etc?

[Doovy]

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[matto]

A segway example but no 'adventure' bike what sort of crazy information thing is this?

[Clanger]

[Rogerborg]

It doesn't really mean much. There are no hard and fast rules or boundaries. The 11kW YZF R125 gets lumped in as a "supersports" bike. "Sports tourer" can just mean a supersports that wasn't as quick as the competition so had bungee attachments put on it and the marketing campaign altered.

Particular reason that you're asking, or just general interest?
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[bikergurl]

Thank you Rogerborg. Reason I was asking is that my husband has a CBF1000 & it was said to be a sports tourer but in the survey it was s Street bike so it piqued my interest. As I have had to give up my hobby of horses I am now riding pillion & always had an interest in bikes.
Kind of you to give me an answer.

[Rogerborg]

That's a good example of a do-anything bike that's hard to categorise. I guess it depends on how you view it.

It's for tearing up the streets:
https://img203.imageshack.us/img203/796/cbf1000wheelieweb.jpg

No, wait, it's for touring:
https://www.hgbyamaha.co.uk/hgbdaytonashoponline/contents/media/CBF1000%20red.jpg
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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[bikergurl]

How true!

[c-m]

It's not a sports tourer if it doesn't have the following available from the factory:

Factory luggage
Centre stand

It's just a plain of regular street bike.

VFR800 is a sports tourer. i.e a sports styled/performance bike set up to tour.

Aprillia Falco, a regular street bike.

Now can anyone clarify for me the difference between dirt bike and enduro? Is it just a bigger dirt bike? A dirt bike styled street bike?

[Vincent]

[Vincent]

OP, if you're wondering which type for your first bike, I would recommend something with an upright riding position.
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[chickenstrip]

[quote="c-m"]It's not a sports tourer if it doesn't have the following available from the factory:

Factory luggage
Centre stand

It's just a plain of regular street bike.

VFR800 is a sports tourer. i.e a sports styled/performance bike set up to tour.

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Well, I'm not so sure on that one. Where does your definition come from? Mine's an FZS1000 that you might say is a street bike. But it actually does the touring bit so well, I think it blurs the lines, yet it was never offered with factory luggage.

These categories are not from anywhere official I think, just what the biking press, the manufacturers and people who ride have gradually formulated and come to accept as categories that we mostly understand when mentioned.

[G]

Dirt bike can mean a wide range of things - from a motocross, trials or pit bike to something like a KTM 950 adventure at a push (I don't think anyone's silly enough to pretend the boxer BMWs bar the HP2 are actually made for 'dirt' .)

Seperate dirt bike categories:
Trials (made for going up stuff).
Motocross (going around short circuits with lots of jumps).
Enduro (going around long circuits with varied terrain.)
Trail or 'dual sport' bike (made for a mix of on road and off road.)
Pit bike (kids-size trail bike.)

Wikipedia is particular bad for stupid categorisations - the SV650S is listed as a 'sports bike' rather than a 'faired commuter' for instance, probably because some SV owner found an advert calling it that or something and wanted to justify their ownership of one of the most boring bikes ever made*.

*Rip blau.

[Enduro Numpty]

[G]

As Iain/Paddy are finding, some enduro bikes, like many versions of the 200EXC can be pretty peaky - however all the 250cc+ ones I've ridden have been very 'flat' - with the 2 strokes even flatter than most 4 strokes.
My 144XC (converted to that spec from a 125SX) has that very flat delivery too, but I don't know if that's the base nature, or due to the work done by who ever converted it.

And yes, the 200 could get quite scary well in to an event - more than once I'd wheelied into the undergrowth as it hit the power band, threw me back and I was too knackered to control it properly. Great fun when you get it right, however .

[Rogerborg]

[c-m]

[Enduro Numpty]