I sold the RX3 today. No more wishing I had a real dual sport or a real touring bike, and having only a mirage (it looks the part) that actually wasn't very fun for either.
For a street commuter, sure? Short sprints on the interstate, okay. Rock gardens? Single track? Jeep trails? Smoothly graded deep gravel? Nope to all of them. A hard packed dirt road is about all it can handle gracefully.
I already have three other bikes that are great at the commuter job, one of which is actually surprisingly good off-road. So the RX3 had to be the one on teh chopping block.
On the bright side, I paid $1200 for it and sold it for $1700. I put nearly 7000 miles on it in two years. With the repairs and accessories I still came pretty close to breaking even. Sold it to a nice kid fresh out of his MSF course. He was happy to find anything under $2000 that was not only rideable, but in good shape too.
While I'm RX3-less now, I still have my SG400 and SSR Buccaneer china bikes
Charles.
Charles.