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What is the ultimate trail bike???
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[QUOTE="DougRoost, post: 138946, member: 23019"] Great insight and when I started riding again this year that was my attitude from the beginning -- to just have fun and trail ride. Coincidentally I am also 5'8" and 165lb. I went looking for a used XR250 or XR400 and ended up on a 1998 KLX300 that is a nice bike and a lot of fun. I will tell you that the KLX is lighter than the XR400 but it also has less power (a magazine article that was on PlanetKLX noted the power to weight ratios were about the same). With a pumper carb and the free mods, it's now a good bike and I enjoy it. It has better suspension out of the box than the XRs and it has a rigid perimeter frame. For this use I'll take it over a Yamaha WR any day. That said, one of my riding buddies has a 1999 XR250 and it's also very nice. Not as much power or top end but it feels torquier. The XR400 definitely has more grunt but people I know who've had them note they are heavy (one such guy now has a KTM 200...). Honda parts availability is definitely easier than the KLX -- it's simply more mainstream (hence my signature). You can't really go wrong with an XR since even if you change your mind you can resell it easily. You might like the DRZ400 but the recurring complaint is its too heavy. Another buddy of mine said to think of it as a better XR400, liquid cooled and e-start, but heavy like an XR400. And steering a heavy bike through woods or picking it up after a get-off after riding for long periods gets old. My next bike is likely to be a KTM 400 E/XC. The 520 is the monster, the 400 just sounds perfect for my use. It's light, the handling is top notch, and it comes with all the goodies you'd end up adding to a Japanese bike (i.e.- don't compare retail prices only). And e-start is a nice thing to have on a thumper, only increasing the fun factor on a long day of riding. My 2 cents. Hang in there and you can't go wrong with any of these IMHO. [/QUOTE]
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