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Originally Posted by ProDigit
A 250 guarantees 60mph, with a little head wind, and 75mph tops on level ground.
But not without screaming 7-10k rpm.
And this suffers MPG.
Performance wise, it's just under what you want. There's no headroom on the interstate, and you'll have to be tailgating to keep up at 75mph.
So I would say 'no'.
With the increase of CC, the bike can both lower revs to get there, and increase performance. 400cc Hi rev or 500cc with torque down low, is the minimum you need nowadays. And anything over 700cc, on the streets, is overkill IMHO.
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Sure displacement is not the most important point to define how suitable a motorcycle is for general purposes, but at least a smaller-displacement one is at least supposed to not be an oversized pig that becomes too hard to maneuver in tight spaces in urban traffic. But anyway, there are some 250cc models from Yamaha that share the same engine with the XT 250 available there in the U.S., one is a naked and other is a mini Ténéré, and both perform well on the road too.