My last bike was a KLR650, actually it became my last bike when I pulled it out of storage after two years one morning when my Beemer crapped out yet again. Drained the oil, dropped in a battery and it fired right up like it had just been ridden the day before.
GREAT bike, right out of the box. I pulled some 1,000 mile Interstate days on mine, flogged it off road and on, and in a corner the first thing that woulda touched down was the handlebars Dead-nuts reliable too.
I will add another perfect motorcycle requirement though.....
8) TUBELESS TIRES
Even today spoked wheels almost always mean inner tubes, an absolute PITA when you get a flat. On a tubeless setup a rubber rivet and a can of fix-a-flat will usually get you home. On a tube tire that tires gotta come off.
Do you know how or why the Marines chose it?
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.
Dead-nuts reliable too.