Hi Chris,
before my XTZ 660, I owned brand new XT600E, year 1991, and done around 79.000 km on it. XT 600 is realy bike worth that money, but comparing with XTZ 660 seems like a little baby; too small in dimensions, less in power, somethimes need waterproof electrics suit :-). Altogether I have found my XT 600E as a good bike, but not suitable for long trips on road due to small fuel tank and lack of power on motorways. In that conditions XTZ 660 is much, much better. The best advantage on XT 600 is built quality and mechanical simplicity which allows you overlanding continents out of worry finding_spare_camshaft or so. If you intend ride a lot of offroad ( unpaved roads ) XT 600 is reasonable choise, but once you taste XTZ 660 you will find out that liquid cooled single of 660 produce more usefull power and especialy torque and cruising 130 km/h on motorways is a rhytam :-) Same constant speed with XT600 is more pain that joy, but anyway, I can concluse that legend of XT 600 is well worth. It is up to you :-)
Regards,
AnteK
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