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How good a rider are you?
You would have to be decent and have some good places to ride to warrant a full Enduro bike as your onkly. Plus the extra maintenance costs and the constant risk of theft.
If you want to just do lanes get the CRF250/300. If you want to do lanes and a bit of Adventuring/touring get the Himalayan.
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Yeah - a full on enduro is overkill for green lane pottering.
I go on about them ad-tedium in any off road related discussions, but also consider a DRZ400E. They're absurdly competent, same sort of weight as the CRF and more poke. Fun handling, dead reliable. Would work fine for some adventure touring too I reckon.
Jung
My goal over the next year is to try various bikes until something clicks. Currently have the street scrambler which will be used for all the B roads around here for the next few months and then will swap for something different.
Next on the list is a dual sport/enduro bike, living next to Salisbury plains means there is plenty of BOATs to explore.
Is buying a 250/350 4 stroke KTM or Husqvarna a bad idea? I'll probably have to employ an armed guard outside my garage but I'm more thinking about servicing etc.