Thanks for all the replies guys, I'm hopefully going to be in the market shortly and seriously considering the Kdx simply because of reliability and I'm not a speed freak anymore. I think I phrased my question wrong, but it was basically answered anyway. What I should have asked was if anyone had ridden with 250 mx bikes or even 450 off road bikes and can you comfortably cruise on the kdx like a dual sport? I know there are going to be times when we are hiking down the roads before we hit the next section of single tracks maybe for several miles. A couple guys have KTM 450's and man those things are geared huge on top, they can cruise along at 60mph barely off idle! With my 250f I felt like I was really screaming even to keep up with my buddies wr400. I didn't mean to imply racing, just cruising along comfortably with the bigger bikes. It sounds like the gearing should be fine though and I didn't even realize they had 6 gears, that's even better. Once we hit the single tracks it was bye bye on my 250f, I generally had to wait for them to catch up, so I should be good on the kdx in the trails!