deeptekkie
Junior Member
Admittedly, I too have always believed that a bike needs to be of bigger displacement to stand the endeavors of long touring rides. Obviously, with today's bikes/engines this simply isn't true! (Or is it?) I'm not talking about cumulative miles....I mean taking your bike on a LONG trip.
(I may have alluded to this in another post a week or so back but there have been too many blue lights and high-speed bugs since then so here goes:
I was in a local Kaw dealer a few weeks ago and they told me that the little Honda Rebel (250) sitting out front, (in TN), belonged to a guy that had ridden up here from Florida!
The next week I was in the local Yamaha shop and told them about it and they said that was nothing: That there was a girl in there the day before on a Suzuki 125cc going cross country, USA coast to coast! (They said she said that it would do 70 mph on the interstate, enough to keep her out of trouble but that was all she needed from it. Good logic!)
How do you all feel about long/extremely long trips on small bikes? Would you embark on a 3000 mile - 8000 mile round trip on such a small displacement bike?
(Just picking the brains of my trusted friends here on a Friday night. I'm sure that some of you have done this....or worse!)
(I may have alluded to this in another post a week or so back but there have been too many blue lights and high-speed bugs since then so here goes:
I was in a local Kaw dealer a few weeks ago and they told me that the little Honda Rebel (250) sitting out front, (in TN), belonged to a guy that had ridden up here from Florida!
The next week I was in the local Yamaha shop and told them about it and they said that was nothing: That there was a girl in there the day before on a Suzuki 125cc going cross country, USA coast to coast! (They said she said that it would do 70 mph on the interstate, enough to keep her out of trouble but that was all she needed from it. Good logic!)
How do you all feel about long/extremely long trips on small bikes? Would you embark on a 3000 mile - 8000 mile round trip on such a small displacement bike?
(Just picking the brains of my trusted friends here on a Friday night. I'm sure that some of you have done this....or worse!)