Are dual sports good for a first bike

are dual sports good for a first bike

Depends, have you ridden off road before? Do you plan to ride offroad?

yes i plan to ride offroad, but i havent ridden a bike ever before

any bike you can get for cheap, and you aren't worried about breaking is a good first bike

mine was a cheap 636 six years ago now I have a 1000cc bike, and it's more manageable than the kawasaki was

Go for a bike with a low cc (=/

I've been wondering the same. Have been looking at drz400s as an option, unless I find a cheap and mint bmw.

>are dual sports good for a first bike
Yes.
And for a second bike.
And a third one too.

How tall do you have to be in order to ride a dual sport?

am also manlette and curious

Go and sit on some bikes, they arent all the same.
Also
>cycle-ergo.com

Dual sports are the best bikes

Some 650's have built-in seat lowering adjustments (inch or two at best), and many shorter folks just get new seats that is carved in the middle to make things lower.

Yes. They are.

Even manlets can ride them but you might struggle a little more at first to learn how scoot over and put a foot down at a stop.

Are xr400s considered dual sport?

As long as they are street legalized, sure

Take a motorcycle safety course. Yes, dual sports are awesome, but if you're a manlet like me (5'9) then anything over 250ccs will also usually be way too tall to be a comfortable daily driver. A dr250 has me nearly half-sitting with my thigh on the seat and my foot on the ground because it's just so fucking tall.

Don't get me wrong, I love LOVE dual sports, but the high center of gravity, somewhat thin tires, and inability to really catch yourself if you're shorter means you're not going to be comfortably doing a lot of weaving and tight turning on it.

I was just curious about this because a few friends of mine and quite a few Strangers have called my stock Xr 400 a dual sport when clearly it isn't street legal.

Most bikes under 1000 are "ran when parked" touring motos from the 70's and 80's. Anything else is going to be a rolling chassis or a fucking scooter.

Ignore this faggot. A 250lb bike is always good when it can reach the speed limit.

There is no good definitive first bike. It really depends on your innate talent and attitude towards things.

Some people should really start on a 150hp supersport and be scared of it, so scared they don't exceed 60mph and have 2" chicken strips until they finally do a track day.

Some people should start on a 20HP 250 and think they're street rossi.

Some people should stay far away from pavement.

Some people should disregard the specifics of the bike part and worry more about the rubber on the road and the rider over it. These people are the smartest. If it does the speed limit, you know, you just need good tires. A ninja 250 on hockey pucks is a deathtrap.

And some people NEED to crash just to grow the fuck up and ride reasonably, so they should get some cheap shit bike and some real nice gear.

5'3 here, with the exception of my vmax/street triple, all my bikes are dual sports, never had any problems, just don't go and buy a fuck huge KTM adventure bike.

TW200, crazy low seat height, probably one of the all best learner bikes ever as long as you don't need to do more than a 100 km/h. I've done over 200,000 k's on mine.

Super Sherpa, again really low seat height, good power for a 250, all round great bike.

Yamaha XT250/XT225, pretty much identical to the TW.

XR400, fine with 17inch motard wheels, can only tip toe it on one side on regular knobbies, that's a deal breaker for some but i've never had a problem.

DRZ400, with a lowering link and the front forks dropped through the clamps a little is very doable.

DR650, even lower than the DRZ, never even bothered with lowering links.

BMW R1200GSA, heavy as fuck, but a lot of adjust-ability in both the suspension and seats available to drop it insanely low without compromising any clearance, squats n oats are more important than height.

Is it safe to ride a motorcycle in Philly? What about Miami?

I bought this cheap 125cc supermoto as my first bike, I live in the UK so it's all I could really get at the age I was. It's nothing amazing but fucking hell it did everything I needed it to do, commuting, off-road, riding twisty roads on the weekends, it just did it.

It honestly depends entirely on what you want to use the bike for, a dual sport will typically be a solid yet simple bike, it would perform well on dirt roads, however if you're planning on being on roads or on streets a lot of the time, you should probably consider a road bike for the sake of comfort.

yes they are

off road riding is great practice for the street

If you're planning on going off road with it? Yes

That bike however is not. It's far too heavy for any real dirt riding outside of flat unpaved roads.