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

[dave996]

Originally Posted by Scooter916

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

Is that the one on the corner next to the Co op? If so it's now called the Aviator...

[Scooter916]

Yea thats the one, Many a drunken night in carterton.
Glyn

[dave996]

In which case I'm sure you know the Bee Dive very well then

[Harv748]

Hi Dave...hows it going...

I have a DR350 enduro bike that I have cutomised to take motard wheels as well. 15 minutes means I can change from a full on dirt bike to a menacing motard!

For scratching about town etc its the business...so much so that in the new year I will be looking to 'upgrade' to a full on KTM dedicated SM. For smiles per mile, they just can't be beat!

Having said that...I wouldn't want to hoon down the M40 on one! No fairing/protection at all means that any speeds above 50mph and you really start to feel it. Just not that good for miles of straight road stuff.

Its not the mileage thats the problem, just the fact that they should live on twisty A and B roads...not motorways. You'd be fed up with it within a week.