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21 Aug 2015
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This bike is awesome and really a success in Brazil.
I'm in my second, the 151kg is wet weight, it is just 4kg heavier than the xtz250 lander (american serrow).
F.I., it makes about 28km/l.
Mine is the orange one.
It's unbreakable, never heard of any having major issues before 120.000km.
Parts are cheap.
Brakes are shitty but easy to improve, rear suspension is shitty also. Maybe next year i'm coming for a improved rear shock.
Eletrics are good, very strong headlight, and it supports nicely auxiliary lights and chargers for gps and mobiles.
Stock seat is hard as rock, so we usually put an aftermarket. With it its easy to make 1000km/day on road.
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22 Aug 2015
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Looks like a cool bike indeed.
But I am not impressed with that fuel consumption. My Tenere 660 makes 24-25 km on a litre. And a Honda Crf 250L which I have rented several times makes around 35 kms pr litre.
Still an interesting bike though...
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Looks like good value, but a WR250R with a 17 litre IMS tank and small screen would be a better -(though much more expensive) bike.
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The problem here in brazil is that a 660z costs as much as 3 times the 250.
So not everyone can have it. and the maintenance costs are much higher.
We do not have the wr250r, if we had i probebly woud be with one of it.
I prefer small light bikes over big bikes like the 660.
In brazil, our sources forum • Índice , i can say that here the 660 do not make more than 20km/l.
the only option here if i were to make an upgrade would be the crf250l, but as i ride 2 up a lot, it wouldn't make it.
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