Both bikes are great and will get you to the most amazing places. And yep, plenty of DRZ stuff to come 😎👍 Cheers mate

Thanks Johnny, and same here with the longer-range trips! Cheers mate 🍻

Cheers Hammy, just get out there and enjoy life mate 😎👍

Thanks Gumby 😎👍

Thanks Bigray 😎👍

Well put Coobye. Yep. it's right between the two - both in power and technology. Cheers mate 👍

Cheers Sam! Looking forward to exploring on it myself! Catch ya mate 👍

Cheers Marc! Yeah, and you may only have the SM and S model? The E is the punchy one virtually all Aussie opt for. Think DR650 power and torque, without the weight - pretty bloody impressive machines. No wonder people take them to fun, super remote, hard-core places 💪

Thanks John. The DR is a classic - enjoy it mate 😎

Ah thanks mate! Now to put some miles on it 😎👍

Cool Bogor, glad you're getting some time in the saddle offroad on the bike 😎👍

Cheers Mr Aus! 2021, the perfect vintage...lol I'd ride out to Big Red - ride up it, watch the sunset, and call that a victory 😁. My timing was good with the DRZ and sale of my Rally - and I'm loving the Suzuki 😎👍

Thanks Sean, and yep 200 kg is pretty hefty - great planted bike I'm sure, but un-nerving in tricky stuff I'd image. Nothing is perfect hey, just ride within the limitations of bike and rider I reckon. Catch ya mate 🍻

Will be in spring I'd say, for 4 nights or so - you're welcome to come mate. But I know you'd keep heading west 🤣

@@MidCoastAdventures hahahaha

@@MidCoastAdventures 4 nights from South West Rocks and back Phil?. That's about a 1,000kms a day.

@@coobye I meant 4 nights each way. But could probably do a week return 👍

You're Rally should never be sold - keep it for all the memories it has given you - that's a lot of kays, and lots of cool rides and videos 😎👍

Ah thanks mate 😎👍

So far Andrew, the 400 is every bit the 650, minus the weight. Just needs to be geared up (15/43 for me) gives the 400 hwy ability, (sit on 100 kph sweetly) and everything else fine 👍

That was one fancy looking DRZ mate! You had it set up beautifully. Some $$ put into it, but well worth it by the look and sounds of the performance 👍 Cheers mate

🤣 I have seen them in pics. They look cool, will hunt around to film one when I head out 👍

1300 to a 450 is big change in power! But yeah, it's horses for courses hey. Those CFMoto 450 are getting a pretty wrap - you've done well 👍

@@MidCoastAdventures thanks mate. I'm loving the MT only done 500km so far and I love the FJR so I can't get rid of that. My wife loves the FJR too so it's definitely staying

Yep, still make them, and still virtually unchanged since 2000 👍

It's definitely taller than the Honda, but I'm still flat footed with knees just bent. I'm 5,11. The seat is about 30 mm lower than stock 👍

@@MidCoastAdventures Cheers , yes lowering by low to moderate amounts they say, has negligible effect on handling . Just remember you don’t have ABS , just before I sold rally was riding on the slimy mossy tar section of the road between Bellingen South and Kalangi a dead end road . Trail braked too hard into a slimy mossy corner was going down , but ABS pulsed and I stayed up. That slimy green stuff is a worry on the backroads around Coffs .

G'day mate, yep the E model has two radiator coils. I guess it's the more "tuned up" of the models (SM and S) Those buying a bike for content have too much money!...lol I buy a bike because it makes sense for me during that time - like my DR650 for longer range loaded trips, The Rally for local exploring, with a few longer trips. Now the DRZ for a mix of both local and long range. The 15/42 combo is working beautifully for me, plenty of grunt still and sits on 100 kph sweetly - about as fast as I go on any bike - and you can still use the stock chain. Cheers mate 👍

I appreciate the heads up on stuff I did not know. Who'd have guessed the two radiators on the one bike? Not me but I could see someone adding a 2nd one to make sure their sH!T didn't overheat, like in your country. We got spots here to so it's just one of the "Version's" of that bike. Cool/kool & you've gone all out w/ their bikes; DR/DRz both of which can be worked on & who've loads of aftermarket products. Australian's really do it up well from what I've seen & both the bikes you've chosen are on my lists as I research for the right bike. "INTENT & Cost" are the main factors in buying but most do not really know what their intent is until after they start riding? I don't want to be that guy so I've got my list, all the probable MOD's & their costs that I feel I'll need down the road & then how feasible it'll be to even do those mods. And believe it or not I've got everything from a Honda 150L up to VSTROM 650's. A bunch are between those but I'm saving right now & learning all of what I wrote. Seeing the 2 radiators means I missed something.... lol, I'll be digging back into it & my intent is 80%/20% to the asphalt side. So I need a bike that can go my local speed limits 75MPH(120KM). This almost limits the DRz but that's why I asked sprocket questions, yeah, I'm even entering into that to see if I can get the speeds out of it that I'll need so I thank you for posting the video & taking time to let me know stuff. peace

Yep, got the old canvas bag rigged under the left pannier rack like on the Rally 👍

Absolutely Peter! Cheers mate 🍻

Cheers for the info on the specs - saved me doing too much research...lol Cheers mate 🍻

For $2k changeover right?

@@rickyzoom8059 Yep, 2 k change over to get a virtually brand-new bike. Had to be done to avoid losing too much $$$ over the next year.