Just to add to that. the DRZ E and S are 90% the same bike. The WRF and WRR are 0% the same bike. Pretty much the only thing they share is the first 2 letters. Both are road legal in Australia as well. The WRF is an enduro bike with maintenance intervals in the hours and not at all a travel rig. Both DR's are good travel rigs if you do your homework. I'd take the DR-E over the S personally and put up with the ali subframe, but prefer the WRR over all of these mentioned.
Europe doesn't see many of these bikes because there are simply no riding areas for them. There is a massive difference on what Adv riding means between the different continents. Which shows a lot on this forum.
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Originally Posted by duibhceK
In most of Europe the WR250F and DRZ400E are road-legal bikes, and a lot cheaper and lighter than their -R and -S counterparts. Which is probably why not a lot of WR250R-s or DRZ400S-es were sold where I live.
DRZ400 hasn't been sold new in most of Europe for at least 6 years. Same for the DR650: hasn't been sold new ever since the EURO3-regulations were introduced in January 2006.
I agree that the WR-R is a good platform for making an adventure bike. And if you throw some extra money at it you could probably get it on par with the CCM in terms of range, comfort and weather protection. Probably still coming in at under the price of the CCM. You'd also still be about 25% down on HP and 45% on torque. But if you can live with that it is an excellent option. I know a guy that happily rode his 250R all around Europe on a 3 month trip.
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