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Adam


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I own the x version (supermoto) and have been invited on a trip from northyorkshire down to Portsmouth then ferry to Santander then ride back up over Pyrenees , France then ferry back from st. Malo. Around a ten days road trip. I was originally going to buy a cheap ish cbr600f for the trip but by the time I have bought and insured the bike along with the cost of the trip I am looking at quite a lot of money so I am thinking about getting a gel seat and larger tank for the wrx. Am I mad for thinking of doing this? The bike will comfortably cruise at 70-75 but it will do 80-90 but flat out, I feel I might be asking a lot of the bike as some days we would be doing 300 miles or so. 

has anyone done any long distance trips on road on these bikes?

Adam. 



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My initial impression of my WR250R is that it is a great road bike and I wouldn't hesitate to do the trip you describe on it. Gel seat and big tank would help the cause though.

"Dude", owner of this forum, had a WRR with a "Seat Concepts" seat on it and it is super comfortable. His WRR went to another mate in Exmouth (Olly Cooke) and he lent me the seat to use whilst I waited delivery of my new one so that's how I know it's nice plus I swapped bikes with Olly and did quite a few trail miles on the seat with no discomfort wink

Also, the service intervals are so high that you wouldn't need to touch anything whilst you are away!

Brian



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See http://www.seatconcepts.com/products#!/~/product/category=1671359&id=7082044



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Hi Brian, thanks for your advise and the link, I am confident that the bike will be up to the job and with a seat and tank upgrade even better. I may have to have a test ride out in a month or two with the other guys who are going as they have bigger road bikes and depending on what sort of speeds they are happy touring at I may end up been left behind or end up thrashing the bike to destruction to keep up! The mrs has told me I can go on the trip but made it very clear that if I want to buy a new bike to go with one of my other bikes would have to be sold ! That would be a very hard choice and possibly the ttr would be in the line of fire!!!

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Taffy Dakar!

This would be a good practice at mixing it with the big boyas Adam! A team of 4 has entered from Devon TRF Group wink



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I don't think I'd fancy that Adam.  I think you would have to thrash the bike to keep up.  Even on overtakes or at junctions etc.  I would be tempted to buy a bike for the trip and sell it afterwards.  Plenty of 600s out there.



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