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Welcome from WV. I had a '15 sporty 1200 Custom and still wish I had it. I liked the larger tank, forward controls for comfort and I personally wouldn't have a sporty smaller than a 1200. It was great for carving curves here in WV. There's lots of info and ideas in other threads here in the HD forum. Good luck in Mexico. You may need it.
Tank size has me a bit concerned. I won't be straying far from the beaten track--otherwise, I'd have gotten a dual sport--but in Mexico, one never knows. Even if there is a gas station, there's no guarantee it'll have fuel or working pumps. Figure I'll tote two, even three, one-liter MSR bottles, unless I can figure a way to lug a Rotopax. Luggage will be a challenge. I'll figure it out.
Going small is part of the point of this. I've chewed up long miles in not much time on big bikes with cruise control and plenty of storage space and heated grips, etc. Now, I want to strip it down, maybe 200 miles on a good day, tooling between coastal towns so I can smell the ceviche. I'm calling it my Walden trip: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
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