klr 450's are not street legal in a lot of places and a 5 speed close ratio tranny sucks as a dualsport machine! they are in my mind, a bike that completely missed the mark/target that they were shooting for.
my dualsport bike will crawl through the toughest snarliest baja single track in first gear, and then hit the highway late in the day and boogie into town for dinner and a beer at 130 km if i want to get there in a hurry. actually, it will hang at 150 kmh if you want to. that wide range of abilities is what a dualsport bike is to me in my world! when your knocking off all of this in one day,that some times is 350/375 km's per day, these things do add up.
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