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Sounds like two buyers Kawasaki now remake the thing here and park it beside the KLR for another option.
I like it!
Come on Kawasaki grow some and import this thing. Would be a great addition to the line up. Make mine Kawasaki lime green and make it with a decent seat height so more beginners will be comfortable on it. KP
It'll steel sales from the bread-n-butter KLR. And I don't think 500cc will do well in US. It might appeal to people with short legs, but that's a too small of a demographic for Kawisaki to care about.
The kle650 verseys evolved from the kle500.
I had a Versys and liked it, but I would want the kle500 so much more.
I like it!
This would make a good stable mate for the 300X. Come on Kawasaki. They could redo the body work a tad to match the 300 and there you go. Oh and matching saddle bags and top box also please.
Yeah..... I keep sayin that the 500 series twin engine is dead & gone...
The Ninja/Versys/Vulcan 650 engine replaced that 500 several years ago.
But the KLE500 layout lives on in the new 300 X.... jus needs a big brother 650 now
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No! The KLE is a much more handsome bike than the 300X. A KLE300 would be a better move as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure others see more appeal in the Dakar/BMW induced fashions, but those swayback seat designs do not function well for me.
KLR and Versys both have too much seat height for me and the KLR wind blast over the windshield hit me right in the face. Had a KLR, but it wasn't as nice and comfortable on the street as the old CB550F, nor as capable and confidence inspiring offroad as the TW200 even before it was bored and stoked to 267cc. The KLR just wasn't the best choice for the riding I was doing at the time. I was either riding tight 2 track or paved twisties most of the time, both of which the KLR can do competently but not excellently. If I expected to do both I'd take the KLR, but that usually wasn't the case. The Versys simply doesn't fit me, and it is cursed with that swayback seat stupidity.