Sumo guys, any input?

[DualSportDad]

I jhave a couple friends with 675's and while they like them both of them complain about the fuelm mileage. My one friend was a new easy rider and he said he couldn't get over 35 mpg. My other buddy rides a little harder and says he is usually in the high 20's. That seems really bad to me. The newbie friend has now been on my old xb9sx for a year and is much happier.

 

[FlaXB9R]

I don't commute at all so mileage isn't a concern to me. I am eventually going to have both a street bike and a sumo with the intent of the street bike to be track purpose mainly and the sumo to raise a little hell around town. The sumo will get tracked too is the reason I've been looking at the bigger sumo's. I've been battling with myself back and forth as to which I want first. I think ultimately now it's going to be which I find the better deal on.

Most of my riding was track and dragon trip last year and don't see that changes as far as street bike. I do believe I would ride a lot more all around if I got a sumo and that's another reason I want one.

There is a 675 I'm going to look at Monday. I looked at one today also, possibly would have bought but he had someone else already scheduled to see it after me which was actually scheduled before me. I just happened to call him while I was 10 minutes from him so he showed it too me first since I was so close. He offered to sell it to me but the guy coming to see it was traveling to see it and had already been on the road and I couldn't step on someones toes like that especially after my experience Friday. There is also a 636 that is track suited with street plastics too I may go look at if still available tomorrow.

 

[DualSportDad]

Thats cool, yeah if you don't ride much milage is no biggie.

For a larger bore supermoto that xrr is awesome for the price. Those bikes easily make 60 HP and weigh 250lbs. They hard to come by street legal. My buddy just picked up one that has been dualsported, I can't wait to take it for a spin.

 

[Buellstuff]

The xrr is a sweet bike, agreed. Especially in supermoto trim. With fluids though it gets up to around 290-300lbs depending on what all you're running on it. I'm always back and forth on which one I liked more between my xrr and my ktm 625smc. Both similar and awesome bikes

 

[DualSportDad]

Doeant the 625 have bad vibration problems? Buddy called his a paint shaker..lol. Or maybe his was a 640.... I forget.

 

[Buellstuff]

Oh yeah the 625's vibrate a lot haha. Right one you hop on one it seems pretty bad but you get used to it within 50 miles of riding. It was never something that bothered me, I put about 12,000 miles on mine, it was never bad enough to make your hands fall asleep or anything like that, and it smooths out as the rpm's build

 

[Enemy Zero]

If you're thinking supermoto, you shouldn't be worried about comfort or smooth engines. They're crude beasts of machines and vibes are to be expected. I learned to start reading speed through the vibes. If I saw two of anything, 35. If it was only one but wavey, 50.

 

[Buellstuff]

^exactly Enemy Zero, but lets be honest, when you're on a supermoto its WFO all the time unless you end up driving in the city... If you buy a sumo you should be looking at performance, if you want comfort, a sumo probably isn't the right bike, I have yet to ride a supermoto that I would call comfortable, once you get into comfort, you're looking at adventure bikes along sumo lines, but they aren't really the same.

 

[go cytocis]

If you're thinking supermoto, you shouldn't be worried about comfort or smooth engines.

[up]Yup. It's a thumper, it's gonna vibe.

And if you're uncomfortable on a Su-mo, you're not riding it properly. When ridden correctly, you'll be too pumped-up on adrenaline to notice you're uncomfortable!

 

[TPEHAK]

Yeah especially with the ktm's they have 2 filters and some screens, oil changes every 800-1000 street miles is just fine. On the 690 or 625 smc's every 3000 miles. Street miles aren't near as tough on them as dirt. I had 14,500 on my ktm 525 supermoto when I sold that and 21,000 on my ktm 625smc when I sold that. Both on stock motors. They are pretty reliable for what they are.

KTM 690 ENDURO R 2015 needs oil change procedure every 6000 miles according the manual, which is more than Buell XB maintenance interval (5000 miles oil change). You can buy a supermoto conversion kit for the KTM 690 ENDURO R so you will have a supermoto street legal motorcycle with 6000 miles maintenance intervals!