Is it better to have a bike that needs to be fixed more often but is "easy to fix" or a bike that's super reliable for over 100,000km but needs a mechanic to work on it?
As a person who isn't super mechanically inclined, I'd take the super reliable route. Some people say tinkering is part of the fun. I don't want to tinker, I just want to ride.
My point is that if you are doing expedition rides (you know where Joe from Suburbia buys all the fancy bolt on aluminum luggage to his BMW) where you are truly on your own the greater the number of things you can fix trailside the better off you will be because things WILL happen. Fuel injection pumps fail, fuel filters clog (esp with crappy gas, looking at you Mexico), wires rub through and create shorts. orings on brake systems fail, tires go flat, chains break, spokes break, bearings fail..
You could throw that XR650 off a cliff and fix the broken stuff with a crescent wrench, some wire and a stick. More importantly that bike could be fixed in 99% of the world. Would the XR be fun to ride for endless days for 1000s of kms? No.
ps. That is a really clean XR. I think his price is a little high as it doesn't have ABS, DCT and the seat height is tall.
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At $4k that is a winner.
And for boredom sake an old video of a guy throwing a XR650L around on a track vs a 450.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=70jokjTaGT4&feature=emb_logo