A conversion has a place to me if it is to open up riding on land or in areas where there is a street legal requirement. There was a limited amount of that in a certain trail area on some US forest svc land, so i built one. I have dual sport bikes because where I live they have a place even on some of our paved roads and I used them to ride longer distances in the lower 48 with the purpose of riding some logging roads and forest service roads. The ones I owned were KLR 650's and it really is a single cylinder street bike that has a little longer suspension. It is NOT good at all on any kind of trail. Dirt roads, it is acceptable if you could drive a car like a crv etc on. None of them are very inexpensive to convert most places, particularly if you have to pay for some help there. So if that explains my rancor for the conversion bikes, I am doing fine. One of the guys that comes on here once in awhile converted a wr450 and is pleased enough with it. He has real dirtbikes too, but I believe he was motivated as I was for certain areas where he had to have a street legal rig.
