Best dual sport bike for the street?

Bill Hilly · 05-04-2024, 10:45 AM

Like Dan said, it's going to be hard to find a bike that light in a Chinese Dual Sport. Even in the Japanese bikes, often the weight reduction comes at the expenses of an electric starter. The 6th gear is not as great as you may think, because it's cheap,and easy to just change sprockets on the 5 speed bikes, which from my experience have enough grunt in the low gears to sacrifice a little. To me, one thing that concerns me on some of the newer Chinese Dual Sports is the fact that they are " technically" off road bikes, and while many, and probably most seem to get then registered, some have problems. The first Chinese bike I bought was a Brozz, and paid $1950 delivered for it a few years
ago, and at the time the RPS Hawk, and TBR7 were selling for around $500 cheaper delivered. The Brozz, and the DLX Hawk, were both the same price, and both had the Federal Highway approval, metal tag. I didn't choose the Brozz because it was nicer(which it was), but because I didn't want to gamble on its road legality. I chose my KPX over bikes like the Titan, and Templar for the same reason. I have bought 2 Chinese bikes, very slightly used a TBR7D, which already had a Title, and a Hawk, that had the original paperwork, but I took a chance on getting it titled. It took it to a local title place, and they handled it, with no problem. I still have the Hawk, and my KPX. I paid around $2850 shipped for my KPX, and glad I did now, because evidently the price is about $500-600 bucks higher now according to the Facebook groups. At first my intention was going to be to use it more like a street bike, and my Hawk as the back road bike, but I got bored and warmed my Hawk up some, and then geared it up from the 16/46 sprockets that I had been running, to a 17/46 setup, and now I catch myself running the poor old Hawk more than I should. LOL. I like the CG motor, and think they probably have the edge ( at least for my style) on secondary roads. I have around 4,000 miles on the Hawk, and a little over 2,000 on the KPX now, and I can tell you that the gas mileage is hugely different between the two, enough so that the price difference between the KPX, and a more basic CG Dual Sport can eventually be absorbed by the fuel
savings . I catch myself constantly being low in gas in my Hawk, and not nearly as often on the KPX, even though I have been using them about the same lately.

05-04-2024, 10:45 AM	#6
Bill Hilly Join Date: Feb 2021 Posts: 931	Like Dan said, it's going to be hard to find a bike that light in a Chinese Dual Sport. Even in the Japanese bikes, often the weight reduction comes at the expenses of an electric starter. The 6th gear is not as great as you may think, because it's cheap,and easy to just change sprockets on the 5 speed bikes, which from my experience have enough grunt in the low gears to sacrifice a little. To me, one thing that concerns me on some of the newer Chinese Dual Sports is the fact that they are " technically" off road bikes, and while many, and probably most seem to get then registered, some have problems. The first Chinese bike I bought was a Brozz, and paid $1950 delivered for it a few years ago, and at the time the RPS Hawk, and TBR7 were selling for around $500 cheaper delivered. The Brozz, and the DLX Hawk, were both the same price, and both had the Federal Highway approval, metal tag. I didn't choose the Brozz because it was nicer(which it was), but because I didn't want to gamble on its road legality. I chose my KPX over bikes like the Titan, and Templar for the same reason. I have bought 2 Chinese bikes, very slightly used a TBR7D, which already had a Title, and a Hawk, that had the original paperwork, but I took a chance on getting it titled. It took it to a local title place, and they handled it, with no problem. I still have the Hawk, and my KPX. I paid around $2850 shipped for my KPX, and glad I did now, because evidently the price is about $500-600 bucks higher now according to the Facebook groups. At first my intention was going to be to use it more like a street bike, and my Hawk as the back road bike, but I got bored and warmed my Hawk up some, and then geared it up from the 16/46 sprockets that I had been running, to a 17/46 setup, and now I catch myself running the poor old Hawk more than I should. LOL. I like the CG motor, and think they probably have the edge ( at least for my style) on secondary roads. I have around 4,000 miles on the Hawk, and a little over 2,000 on the KPX now, and I can tell you that the gas mileage is hugely different between the two, enough so that the price difference between the KPX, and a more basic CG Dual Sport can eventually be absorbed by the fuel savings . I catch myself constantly being low in gas in my Hawk, and not nearly as often on the KPX, even though I have been using them about the same lately. Last edited by Bill Hilly; 05-04-2024 at 02:46 PM.
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