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DOS is my BMW F800 GSA. It's a bit of a trail bike, a bit of a tourer, a bit sporty, but mostly a master of none that costs $16,000. For w The greatest dirt bike ever built. The slinkiest Grand Tourer. It's Our ubiquitous favorite sport bike. An indestructible dual sport. A mod in case I feel Plus my entire selection of beginner gear. Nine, nine, nine, nine items for the price of one. All locally for sale at those prices and none are beat up used up money pits. In fact, each is rather special. The XR series by Honda is home to the best built dirt bikes in Back in the 70s everyone was stocking the trails with two strokes. Lighter, cheaper, enough horsepower to embarrass Seabiscuit. Definitely the future. Only Big Red had they kept banging their heads against the XL series, refusing to give up on four stroke dirt bikes. So when emissions become a the most powerful dirt bike ever to put rubber on a road. The XR's launch in 79 immediately closest to two stroke power. And sporting superior suspension, reliability and maintenance intervals since Honorable Honda was long accustomed to compensating for speed. An XR will never There are faster t Our glory day sunsets in 2002 when Honda s The balance of the former made in Japan, the balance of the latter made in Brazil. Fortunately two decades of Kaizen manufacturing has left a ripe used market. Everyt Save two exceptions. XR models that end in L are lame. Detuned versions for street legality. And XR's from the first years, 79, 80, occasionally came with 23 inch front wheels. They'd roll over boulders, trees, ATV riders, was totally cool, but impossible to find rubber. Hello Clarence. A 1985 Goldwing in rare condition. Only that's not rare at all. Well let's do the math. To buy one new, you'd be a fastidious, capital rich person, probably 40 years old. Today that'd make you, oh, well maybe dead. Craigslist is full of sellers aging out of Goldwings. Honda macabre to buy someone's last motorcycle, but the value is irresistible. Air suspension, inbuilt compressor, inbuilt passenger, communicator, four speaker sound system, p A top end tourer kept under an old man's eye. And these bikes invariably come with shop manuals, green flag, for conscientious caretaking, or folder of maintenance receipts. And the only t Hunt for a wing with collector plates, the insurance discount is worthw 160,000 kilometers in Goldwing years has pretty puberty. The SV 650 since 1999 has been filing claims for the best sport experience on the road. And because of that, we have many race prep parts, many track day entries, and used ones cost many dollars. Fortunately, this is not an SV 650, it's the SV's 2009 replacement, the Gladius, known colloquially as Gladius for its matronly styling and appalling sales n Gladii Command about the same price as a piss flavored snow cone, w Only t It got The package was so hot that when Suzuki relaunched the SV a few years ago, they pulled a naughty nun, stripping off Gladius's fr Meaning the greener grass of SV 650 race parts usually fit the Gladius side too. Only you won't even have to swap the forks because somehow t Check the peg feelers. Virgin. In spite of tire edges, virgin. It's impossible to find a used SV 650 that hasn't been h Just because it was a c The witness, the most adventurous motorcycle ever made. Fast, striking, luxurious. No, no, no. But mile for mile, KLRs have seen more than GESs and KT Reason being, they're indestructible. I once spent two weeks explicitly trying to kill one, only to find it when I finally cracked the engine wide open. eBay had a million replacement parts under $70, and every other piece was in fine working order. Well, 31 years of perfected production will do that for you. I wouldn't risk taking a Ducati Multistrada as far as Manitoba, but I'll ride a KLR to Mars. Cockroach reliability leaves many survivors on the used market, driving prices unreasonably low. Consider the Yamaha T7, a balance between six-lane highways and single-track trails, with everyone lining up to suck Yamaha's MSRP I contend that our KLR 650 performs the exact same task, with Iron Age technology, but still. The trick to adopting these old dogs is to find a stock one. Because of their reputation as a sturdy platform, too many KLRs get ruined by bad wrenc Factory wiring is good evidence of a farcal-free life, whereas leacher leads and monochrome electricals from some amateur too cheap to buy multiple spools of wire are as ominous as a plate of bat carpaccio. Only exception is the doo That's KLR speak for a preemptive, balancer-chain tensioner swap, the only mod you want to see done. I once suspected it a myth until I took apart my own engine and found the stock doo A few too few pieces. The Early 2000s, mm-mm-mm, millennials are coming of age, American chopper is the most popular show on Discovery Channel, and everyone is pouring their economic boon into a custom cruiser. Nowadays we've moved on to cafes, scramblers, other more authentic, yet identically inauthentic trends, so what? Someone put their retirement savings into this thing, and now Craigslist slash motorcycles, there's just one big competition to see who can give away their millenni Yamaha V-stars are particularly good. Remember when Honda offered inordinate quality for money in the late 60s trying to eat into Tri Well, here's the same story. Harley is selling V-twins faster than dealers Yesterday's deal is today'steal, especially since anyone buying a Jampanese Cruiser in 2000 definitely bought it to ride it. See a regularly ridden motorcycle is always safer than someone's garage candy, lovingly adored from afar w Only trick with millenni Hey, let the big drop be a low-balance fee, yeah it ain't cheap anymore, yeah it ain't cheap anymore, no it ain't cheap anymore, yeah it ain't cheap anymore, I work hard with my big and they take it away and they wonder why the hell I'm so opposed.