Motu on the Burma Rd

[Posh Tourer :P]

Yes, your tyres are too wide, wheels too small and bars too narrow...

The FXR150 seems to do ok, but a CBR250 could struggle

[merv]

Agree with PT. A dirt bike lets you sit up straight, with the wide bars making it easy to flick one way and then the other as you learn to ride by steering by sliding the back wheel. Light weight helps and a quick responsive engine with good torque so you can control the bike easily with throttle on throttle off. By the time you wound a 250 four up and then tried to slow it down into corners guys like me on 250 singles will have left you in dust. My WR revs to 13,000 but pulls off idle like an XR250 - how they did that I don't know but the motor is impressive which is why I bought it. Will the engine last long? I doubt it.

I would not bother riding my VFR down dirt roads except on roadworks because I have to at times. I'm leaning too far forward on it, the tyres are too rounded with no grip on gravel at all and likely to puncture, the bars are too narrow and its too bloody heavy. Just not made for the job.