Road burner or adventure bike for Florida.

FWIW I haven't been tempted to take the Uly off road in FL and haven't ridden the DS (plated XR650R) since I moved here a yr and a half ago. I was averaging ~30k miles/yr before moving to FL, now I rarely ride. Not much off road and what there is is pretty flat and dull, same for the paved stuff. Buy a boat for FL fun and leave a moto in Colorado for moto fun (SW has a direct flight to Denver that almost always cheap) I'll have to get out and explore more FL riding though as I do miss it. Maybe this winter.

I was having similar thoughts today after riding around town.

I recently switched from a V-Strom to a Tenere,mostly due to the type of riding I like to do.The Tenere will do fine on most Florida dirt roads,forest service roads,with the correct tires,just don't it expect it to do everything a smaller bike would do.When not in the dirt it handles back country roads,hiways and interstates just fine.....Rick

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Inept... who's your ride leader?

I don't need no steenkin ride leader!

Team Inept is an army of one

Perhaps a turbo'd TW200 with a 20T front sprocket?

You're small people, right?

I am in Largo with an FJR1300 and a KLR650. The KLR gets most of the miles. The streets here are kinda rough and there is rarely an opportunity to play with horsepower. Even 19 rarely opens up enough for the FJR to be taken out.
There are some off road riding areas about an hour away but I haven't been there yet.

Your joking right?

Did you sell yours yet?
I have owned the ST1300, you would NOT like this bike.
Hot on the legs, not the best on fuel, hard to read instrumentation,
rear differential had issues, stator too. It was a top heavy bike.
The electric windshield was nice, fuel injection worked well, had a good suspension.

I'm looking for a DL 1000. My Versys 650 just doesn't have enough oomff.

No been messing in boats a lot lately. Haven't been thinking much about that bike.

best bike for da job handz down iz da vino 125 u can open dat mother up wit a wiseco bigbore kit n itll do triple digitzz eazy n u still get like 200mpg on higrade racegas n not only dat but ull be da star of every adv event u find urself at n ull b thiking itzz good 2 be king

Tru Dat, allah what he said!

Wtf...

I second that. WTF?

Damn...I wish I woulda talked to you before I plunked down $$$$ on a GSA. Who redid your suspension ? Can you ride hardpack, clay, mud, rocks, sand & clowns on it ?

I've been riding in Clearwater for the last 25 years. I have to agree with some...
Get a middle size Dual sport so you can do some pavement around town and ride a few of the state parks about an hour north.

Boating is the best way to get the most from this area. I mainly boat in the summer and save the (serious) riding for the cooler months.

I do a lot of touring. A small dual sport won't cut it. I'll worry about the bike later this year. I've been filling all my free time with catamarans.