Best dual sport bike for the street?

[Megadan]

Everything you want is out there, minus the weight requirement. 200lbs or less is pushing it a bit. Especially for something street legal. The 6 gears may also be a bridge too far. Not many 6 speed 200cc or less engines, at lest not in any dual sports that I know of.

Anything with a Horizontal Honda clone engine will be 4 speeds, or a 5 speed with specific engines. The 6th gear is also fairly uncommon with the CB and CG vertical clones save specific Lifan or Zongshen applications, and most of those are 172FMM engines, which are 250cc.

You could turn a Lifan KPM200 into a scrambler style bike. It has about as much suspension travel as a Hawk lol. Just need to put some 17 inch dual sport tires on it. The only requirement it doesn't meet is the weight.

[Thumper]

The CG clones (230cc) are more road-worthy. These would include Hawk, Raven, Bashan Storm, Titan etc. These are all 5 speeds, the latter being more enduro shaped. But once you've gone over 250lbs, you can get the 6 speed in a Lifan KPX. Watch Bill Hilly's videos in the video and pics section... It's a great bike. For about $1000 less, the Templar X also has the 6 speed. Those are just selling out fast and in fact the 5 speed Templars are also not in stock anywhere.

At 150cc level, the Storm DLX is a bargain at $1000. But it's a 4 speed. As I said, you might want a bigger engine if you are intending to be on the road, and by road I mean two lane stuff. Fourlane highways attract heavy, fast vehicles. It's pretty dangerous out there for anything under 250cc.