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22nd April 15, 03:37 PM
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Last bike I had, a long time ago, was the old 750 water-cooled Suzuki. Someone stole it from me! Nice bike, but I'm not sure I need a big road bike anymore. I have been toying with the idea of getting a small dual-purpose bike, so I can ride it off road and still use it to get from A to B on occasion.
I have a short inside leg. I'm 5'8", but also have a long body and short legs for my height. My old Suzuki allegedly had a 31" inch seat height, but that was with the stock seat, which had been replaced long before I bought the bike. Ironically, if I was looking at, say, Harleys, I could comfortably place both feet flat on the ground on one of those, but trail bikes, even small ones, seem to be much higher, especially the monoshock ones.
The Yamaha TW200 looks like something I might be interested in. Does anyone have any other suggestions? I have nothing against more power or more weight, as I am used to dealing with a 70 bhp road bike that weighed over 500 lb, but I don't want anything that is way up in the air, or anything that is too big to really be genuinely suited to off-road use, and whatever I get it will probably never travel more than 30 miles away.
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