Actually, I think a bath and a new turn signal (a few minutes to change) and she would be good as new...looks more dirty than anything else! Can't tell if there is damage to the oil cooler or not in the photo.
Just be wary of wet grass...especially on hills....this comes from personal experience..lol. The power 2 weight ratio I think constitutes to this! roughly 98hp and only about 425lbs for DL1000. (my new titanium exhausts supposedly shave 10 lbs off this.)
Also..on the V-Strom sites there is alot of advice on different tires for different situations. I feel that the stock tires (Bridgestones) are mostly a road tire to begin with and virtually worthless in the mud (yet another VX/V-Strom parallel...lol). There are other options for leaning more towards off-road.
I think your rating of the different bikes on/off road was dead-on. You can further break it down between the V-Strom's too. I'd say DL650 85/15 and DL1000 90/10 with tires tweaking it one way or the other. The DL1000 IMHO gives you a hair more latitude for 2-up touring with bags plus.......an extra exhaust pipe :-)
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