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Oh, re the CRF230 - great around-town bike, too slow and underpowered for freeway work imho. The CBR250R will run freeway speeds ok though.
I've commuted on everything from a 17hp 250 to a 120hp (at the wheel) TL1000S. For all city riding the slow bike is fine, but if there's a bunch of freeway work, especially freeways with lots of traffic its nice to have the power to be able to run with traffic and accelerate out of trouble as needed. You don't give up a lot of mpg with a fast bike for a given speed, but its easy to go faster and use more fuel. Bikes also vary a lot in efficiency - my bandit 1250 was quite efficient and my TL1000S less so.
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