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Originally Posted by woodsrat
The bottom line here and my point is that by slightly adjusting your routes you can go about anywhere you want on a small bore motorcycle. I've been doing it the last five years and you can, too.
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Yeah, but why should we want that?
Is it that much more expensive to put a 250cc engine in a motorcycle instead of a 125? I mean, you need the same number of parts for a 250 compared to a 125, so then it just comes down to the 250 parts being a little bigger.
I don't see the point in building 125s except maybe as beginner bikes.
Honda charges a grand more for a bike that has liquid cooling and is freeway capable. It gets something like 80 MPG instead of 130 in the 125cc, but then again, if I cruise around at 40 MPH on a 250, I'll get 130 MPG.
Perhaps there is a sweet spot between 250cc and 125cc. How about 200?