Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > General Motorcycles only > Advice on Supermoto's please

[dave996]

I'm possibly looking at getting something along the lines of an enduro/supermoto for over the winter months but I have a limited budget of £2k. I have seen I can get something like a suzuki drz400 for that.

What I need to know is are these sutible for comuting about 100+ miles a day. The reason I want this style of bike is that I want to have some fun as well otherwise I would buy a bindit.

Cheers

Dave

[Nattyboy]

DRZ is a good bet Dave - ive ridden them on and off road. A bit heavy but bullet proof motor and cheap to run...spares in plentiful supply..

Expensive bit will be getting the wheels !

Nat

[dave996]

Cheers for that Nat.

The most important thing would be getting the bike, then I would look at wheels, what suspension mods would need to be done for swapping from on road to off road?

[Scooter916]

Dave I had a CCM644 DS last year, Twas the one with the suzuki Motor in it, They can be had for your budget, they do take a fair bit of living with, I loved it for a month then I grew to Hate it, It was great to do a 50 mile blast on a sunday around the back roads, But anything more was hard work.
In essence I would have one for playing on but a 100 mile comute I would look elswhere. Probably not what you want to hear, Buy with you heart not your head and you will be happy.

[dave996]

Cheers Scooter, I was wondering about the comute as it would be M40 to London then in and around the big smoke. I would be looking for something that was easy to work on. The down side is that the Duke would have to go (for now anyway, the wife promised I could have another later on)

[Scooter916]

Just noticed your location I used to live there too. HMM carterton , The spitfire pub still there.
Glyn