Which Dual Sport to purchase

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by crixster

Thanks for your advice and all the others who took their time to post their comments. I do think I was overthinking it from a support perspective. I'm going with the counter balanced Hawk X. Appreciate all the input here guys. Going to order the bike tomorrow and should be chiming in soon! Wish me luck!

I am sure the Hawk X will work out great for you. From what I have seen, they have made several small changes/upgrades to them, including the sprockets they come with. Unless the information I got was wrong, it looks like they come with a 17 front and 45 or 46 rear sprocket. I still wouldn't trust the chain it comes with, and I have no doubt the carb is still jetted pretty lean, but I suspect it has slightly better jetting than the standard Hawk since it also comes with all of the other emissions equipment.

Just make sure to stay on top of the maintenance, and I would still go over the bike during assembly and follow as much of the first post in my resource guide as possible. "Better" is still a subjective measure lol.