Upgrade bike decision time once again...

[Mk1inCali]

Good for you, I live in San Diego, and an '03 SV would be 580 for full, and an '03 Monster 620 would run 853/year.


I don't/won't run just liability.

[Alphamazing]

Good for you, I live in San Diego, and an '03 SV would be 580 for full, and an '03 Monster 620 would run 853/year.


I don't/won't run just liability.

Good point. Different areas have different threat levels.

If I got the Z1k it'd be full covereage. Don't know how much that would be though. Might rocket upwards.

[Lukewarm Wilson]

Comfort and Motard do not work in the same sentence if you thought 20min on a GS was bad just wait, go the SV or Duc

[Mk1inCali]

That's the thing, Wilson, I know they are comfortable for me...Back before my whole DVT thing popped up, I would go riding all day with my dad/cousin/little brother/2 friends, and we'd swap bikes.  Dad had a YZ426F, cousin had a YZ400F, I had a YZ125, and my two friends ran a 125 and a YZ250F.  My dad now owns a YZ250F, but I've ridden it more than he has, and a lot of that riding was done on a road to get to the trailhead back in rural Minnesota.

The motards/dirtbikes fit me better because I can get waaay back on the seat and stretch out/stand up and ride comfortably.  Standing on the true streetbikes is just asking for something to happen with the controls being angled wrong/low bars/skinny pegs.



In other news, I got the Yosh bolted down on the GS, and popped the front end up on accident...been surprising how much it is waking up after throwing away the stock (original) filter and that crap pipe they supply you with from the factory.  The yosh sounds MUCH much better.

[scratch]

Husky would be too expensive to buy and maintain.

Your selection really has been narrowed down to the Duc and the motard.

Be aware of the maintenance and cost of maintenance on the Duc, if you are going with a more reliable air-cooled two-valver (valve adjustments every 3000 miles), which you should.

You are familiar with the comfort on a motocross bike, but have you sat on one for more than five minutes straight (that's a question I would pose to any buyer (as well as myself), when I used to be a m/c salesman)?

With the information you have provided, I'd go with the motard.

[Alphamazing]

Be aware of the maintenance and cost of maintenance on the Duc, if you are going with a more reliable air-cooled two-valver (valve adjustments every 3000 miles), which you should.

They aren't necessarily valve adjustments, but like the GS they are only valve checks. They also need to be done every 6400 miles, not every 3000 miles.

[Mk1inCali]

I definitely would be going with an air 2 valve Duc if I were to pick one up, and from talking with my dad who follows the ST2 group pretty closely on Yahoo, one of the guys that wrenches for one of the teams that races Ducs in SoCal (some big name team, but it's not the factory guys), has been pushing people to extend the valve checks, and my dad has put 12K on his ST2 with no change in his valves at all, only checked them once, and the racer dude said go to 20K before checking them again.

To answer your very good question of sitting vs standing on a MX bike, I have, we used to have to ride on the roads about 5-8 miles, depending on which trail system we were going to tear up that day from my friend's house.  With short motocross gearing, I'd guess we were running out of RPM at ~50mph, so it wasn't a quick blast down the road by any means.  In short, yes, I have sat on one for a good length of time and still feel it'd be more comfortable than a Duc.  I need to sit on a Monster again and see how small it feels, and that'll basically make up my mind.