Thread: RX3 or RX4?
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Old 05-20-2023, 09:37 AM   #8
tknj99   tknj99 is offline
 
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Good choice! I owned and sold an RX4 and while it may be highway "capable" on an highway incline doing 70 with nothing left to pass while a pickup was on my tail was no fun.. If you want a highway capable bike it needs to be able to maintain 90mph to be comfortable and not be maxxed out and none of these smaller displacement bikes will do that.. a chinese 250 dual sport will be great fun on gravel and hard-pack being nice and light but will definitely not be highway capable for anything over a 55-60mph road as they reach their limits soon after and riding at 8k rpm gets old quickly.. If the RX4 had another 20 or more hp to move its heft it would have fit the bill for sure, which is why to have what you are looking for i think you may need to look outside the Chinabike circle, ie. something like a Super Tenere, KLR650, KTM etc, heavier bikes for sure but alot more power as well' otherwise you have 2 bikes, one for dedicated dual sport duty and another for ADV touring
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