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What other bike did you have right before the FJR?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fontanaman" data-source="post: 1312138" data-attributes="member: 19354"><p>I had a 2005 DL 1000 Vstrom aka the Manstrom and I put 80k on it but grew tired of Dual Sporting on it. Not a great bike on loose surfaces.</p><p></p><p>I also I developed a theroy that all the most scenic places were found 100+ years ago and at the time putting a road to those places was considered an achivement of man over nature. I developed this idea will riding in a hall of trees on a backroad on Oregon. On some of these off road places you could ride for miles and not see damn thing other than a hall of trees.</p><p></p><p>Couple that with the notion the snow on the backroads is not melted out until July when the fire season begins. So here you are ready for your Dual Sport vacation dodging smoke in the forest or you can't get to the places you planned on going all year. I really don't like riding in forest fire smoke.</p><p></p><p>So a so bike on loose surfaces, with less scenery than can be found on pave surfaces and dodging forest fire smoke was reason to see the Vstrom and not look back.</p><p></p><p>There are plenty of pave roads in the USA and Canada I have never been on and the FJR is a perfect mount for the highway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fontanaman, post: 1312138, member: 19354"] I had a 2005 DL 1000 Vstrom aka the Manstrom and I put 80k on it but grew tired of Dual Sporting on it. Not a great bike on loose surfaces. I also I developed a theroy that all the most scenic places were found 100+ years ago and at the time putting a road to those places was considered an achivement of man over nature. I developed this idea will riding in a hall of trees on a backroad on Oregon. On some of these off road places you could ride for miles and not see damn thing other than a hall of trees. Couple that with the notion the snow on the backroads is not melted out until July when the fire season begins. So here you are ready for your Dual Sport vacation dodging smoke in the forest or you can't get to the places you planned on going all year. I really don't like riding in forest fire smoke. So a so bike on loose surfaces, with less scenery than can be found on pave surfaces and dodging forest fire smoke was reason to see the Vstrom and not look back. There are plenty of pave roads in the USA and Canada I have never been on and the FJR is a perfect mount for the highway. [/QUOTE]
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