Sell street bike, get dirt + track bike?

[JulesMaximus]

You can't really call either of those supermotos. They're naked bikes with dirt bike inspired styling.

Closer to a supermoto than a Multistrada for sure. :sneaky:

 

[jaha2000]

Closer to a supermoto than a Multistrada for sure. :sneaky:

Ehhh.. Still a stretch. You going to huck a double on a hyper or even contemplate riding it on a dirtbike track?

Its a street bike with upright dirtbike type looks.

Supermoto can be found below..

 

[JulesMaximus]

Ehhh.. Still a stretch. You going to huck a double on a hyper or even contemplate riding it on a dirtbike track?

Its a street bike with upright dirtbike type looks.

Supermoto can be found below..

Well, I'm not going to argue with you about it. That's just how Ducati classifies the bike. Fuck, even wikipedia classifies it as a Supermotard. 😀

Man, I rode to work this morning and it was FREEZING COLD!!! Saw 33 degrees on my dash for a good 20 minutes of my ride. The fingers on my right hand were numb despite having heavy gloves and the heated grips on high.

 

[jaha2000]

Well, I'm not going to argue with you about it. That's just how Ducati classifies the bike. Fuck, even wikipedia classifies it as a Supermotard. 😀

Man, I rode to work this morning and it was FREEZING COLD!!! Saw 33 degrees on my dash for a good 20 minutes of my ride. The fingers on my right hand were numb despite having heavy gloves and the heated grips on high.

No aurgument required. Having been to plenty of sumo track days, i can tell you exactly how many hypers i saw there.. 0. Frankly my bike below is too big and heavy to be a real supermoto. Thought i was going to die hucking it over anything big, i definilty had it setup for the street.

At some point i will get back into the game, and the hyper is going to be on my shortlist along with the KTM. Until then, i still have pics of my old stuff!

 

[JulesMaximus]

No aurgument required. Having been to plenty of sumo track days, i can tell you exactly how many hypers i saw there.. 0. Frankly my bike below is too big and heavy to be a real supermoto. Thought i was going to die hucking it over anything big, i definilty had it setup for the street.

At some point i will get back into the game, and the hyper is going to be on my shortlist along with the KTM. Until then, i still have pics of my old stuff!

:thumbsup: I do dig your bike. Never ridden a supermoto though personally.

It's a lot cheaper to take a dirt bike and put street rubber on it than a Hypermotard costs so I'm not surprised you didn't see any there. You could probably do up 2 or 3 dirt bikes this way for the cost of one new Hypermotard.

I was chatting with the parts guy at my Ducati dealer about the Hypermotard a couple years ago and I said I just didn't get it. He said that quite a few guys buy them and then crash them trying to drift them around a corner up on Palomar Mountain. Seemed like another compelling reason for me not to bother ever riding one. They do look kinda sorta cool though. 😀

Drifting a motorcycle on paved roads just seems like a recipe for disaster and I certainly have no desire to ever try it on my Multistrada. You do see Multistradas at track days though. 😉

 

[jdoggg12]

My sumo as I was installing steel lines on it for a track day

My sumo when I first got it and the R1 I tracked for a bit

I love the sportbike on longer rides and on big tracks - but on tighter tracks and technical twisties, I prefer the sumo.

The R1 is 4x the engine and damn near 8x the power but it never lets you forget that... it rewards skill and precision but brutally punishes mistakes. The WR is always eager to do anything to make you happy, as best it can - and is very forgiving of mistakes... bad lines, too much entry speed, grabbing the brakes... no problem, it'll recover!

I swear, if Yamaha made a WR450X or WR600X with the same frame design as the 250, it'd be damn near the perfect commuting, canyon carving, track thrashing toy!

 

[jaha2000]

:thumbsup: I do dig your bike. Never ridden a supermoto though personally.

It's a lot cheaper to take a dirt bike and put street rubber on it than a Hypermotard costs so I'm not surprised you didn't see any there. You could probably do up 2 or 3 dirt bikes this way for the cost of one new Hypermotard.

I was chatting with the parts guy at my Ducati dealer about the Hypermotard a couple years ago and I said I just didn't get it. He said that quite a few guys buy them and then crash them trying to drift them around a corner up on Palomar Mountain. Seemed like another compelling reason for me not to bother ever riding one. They do look kinda sorta cool though. 😀

Drifting a motorcycle on paved roads just seems like a recipe for disaster and I certainly have no desire to ever try it on my Multistrada. You do see Multistradas at track days though. 😉

Trust me when i tell you this, its not that cheap. There is over 3K worth of wheels, tires and brakes on that XR. And the i spent more on the Ohlins front than i have spent on some bikes.
I made a mistake selling it as a bike. Should have put it back into dirt form and sold the sumo goodies seperate.

With the used market and the fact that they hyper has been around for a while now, i bet i could have gotten an air cooled 1100 for what i had into that XR. But i would have felt terrible driving a hyper down bike paths, in the woods. I would have destroyed it doing what i did on that XR and the big thumper just kept on going.

As the old saying goes, its more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow. The notes above about the R1 are the same reason i rid myself of the CBR1K i had. Super smoth, but would punish you if you made a mistake.

 

[Mursilis]

Keep in mind that I have use of only 1 arm so I chose a 250 to keep my daredevil tendencies in check.

How do you ride like that? 😱 And did you lose use of the other arm riding?

 

[jdoggg12]

How do you ride like that?

Like this 🙂

And did you lose use of the other arm riding?

Yes - I was giving up street riding to race in WERA. One last hurrah with friends led to a tank slapper which ended up with me getting a little hurt...

 

[Mursilis]

Like this 🙂

Yes - I was giving up street riding to race in WERA. One last hurrah with friends led to a tank slapper which ended up with me getting a little hurt...

Interesting. I'm impressed that you're able to manage that set-up, and you're still able to do what you love despite your injury. Hope your riding is incident-free from here onward!