1TRAK
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Bought a 650 V Strom a couple months ago, I wanted to put some miles on it before posting up about it.
As some of you know I enjoy riding gravel and two tracks on the NT, it seemed to work ok as long as one was careful and rode slowly.
A while back I had a chance to ride the NT and DL back to back on pavement and gravel, the DL seemed pretty amazing at the time. A hundred pounds less weight, the same horsepower and torque as the NT, virtually no vibration and better suspension really makes a difference.
I was going to buy that used and fully farkled 06 for a song and keep the NT for long trips but after doing the math on two used bikes (maintainence, insurance, future farkles) and talking to folks that travel on the DL my wife and I decided on a new V Strom instead.
We got an excellent price from Peacock Ltd. on a Black 2011 650 ABS with factory bags and trunk plus they were more than fair on the NT for trade.
My friend Jarod and I made the 2 hour ride north to Peacock one beautiful fall day, parted with the Faster Red NT after 19000 great miles and started a new journey on the V Strom 650. Here's some pics from the ride home.
Steve
As some of you know I enjoy riding gravel and two tracks on the NT, it seemed to work ok as long as one was careful and rode slowly.
A while back I had a chance to ride the NT and DL back to back on pavement and gravel, the DL seemed pretty amazing at the time. A hundred pounds less weight, the same horsepower and torque as the NT, virtually no vibration and better suspension really makes a difference.
I was going to buy that used and fully farkled 06 for a song and keep the NT for long trips but after doing the math on two used bikes (maintainence, insurance, future farkles) and talking to folks that travel on the DL my wife and I decided on a new V Strom instead.
We got an excellent price from Peacock Ltd. on a Black 2011 650 ABS with factory bags and trunk plus they were more than fair on the NT for trade.
My friend Jarod and I made the 2 hour ride north to Peacock one beautiful fall day, parted with the Faster Red NT after 19000 great miles and started a new journey on the V Strom 650. Here's some pics from the ride home.
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