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A few of the new ones have a part surging issue, not all of them, we have run this forum from 2006 providing help to solve it, check our success rate in this forum and it will make your decision simple.

Once you get over that problem and that doesn't mean you might have one, you will find a much more enjoyable bike than the DRZ400 and one that won't leave you behind if you are out with the big boys on their pocket rockets.

Ultimately my advice is: try one - then decide.