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I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


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Old 13 May 2007
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Well, I got a '84 XT600 here in the UK a little while ago, I paid £650, it's recently been rebored, serviced, painted and modernised here and there. 45,000km. It's a nice bike. It has a "chuckle" in 2nd gear.. not sure if that's worth worrying about. I'm still trying to get my licence, so I've only been down the road on the bike, but, .. wow.. this thing is quick.. more so than the honda 125 with 11 very sickly horses.. if heman had a motorbike.. and you are high up, it's wonderful.. and the suspension seems much better, the ride is soft, I remember having a sore spine(!) after a day coming down from the hills on the 125. But, it seems it's not too heavy to throw about the mud still. A good choice I think. Also I heard from someone else that these types of bike are cheaper on the continent, they where more popular there than in the uk it seems.
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Xr250 economy.

When i was recently in north Thailand i hired out a couple of xr250's on two separate occasions (different bikes). These were both used for wek-long tours of the mountain roads around Chiang Mai/Mae Hong Son/Golden Triangle etc. Also indulged in a few spots of off-roading up jeep tracks (and some pure singletrack through the jungle). I'm a bit anal about fuel economy and found the bikes would give about 60mpg (a geared-down '97 xr with knobblies, a lot of off-road), and 84mpg (standard '06 xr with more road-biased tyres, a bit of off-road and a fair amount of road cruising). I'm 5'11" and 85kg and the bikes would happily cruise at 55-60mph (fine for quiet Thai backroads - not sure about Euro main-roads, mind!), with light luggage on-board. Nice bikes, but they need regular oil-changes (enduro bikes, of course...), at least every 3000km's, according to the guys there.
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