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Originally Posted by
richardsracingmad
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Excellent! Thanks, that looks like what I am after.
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Originally Posted by
jasext
The bike is very capable of doing offroad riding and stands up pretty well to being dropped ,but please bare in mind this is nearly 200kg ,it is not and enduro bike and does'nt pretend to be although i did take mine most places an enduro bike would go ,but it was quite hard work .
The benefits of this bike are , a lot less maintenance ,better milage ,more storage areas an more confortable over distances ,if your planning on doing more extreme offroad look for a different bike in my opinion
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Thanks for that honest opinion, really appreciate it. I think I'm on the right track, I'm coming off a TDM900 at 220kgs, a little bit lighter would definitely be good, but better suspension, bigger spoked wheels, and able to stand up on the pegs for reasonable distances comfortably is what I am after.
I spent many hours on my XR400, and while it was a fun bike, I don't need to go flat out through the single track anymore, but I do want to be able to cover some long distances. An enduro bike isn't really suitable for that, so the XT looks like a comfortable middle ground. If it weren't the XT it would probably be a DR650, but I definitely like my Yamahas, for various reasons.