What’s better for me than YBR250/YS250?

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Like the titles says... What’s better for me than YBR250/YS250?

I am a novice rider, but have logged lots of track time in fast cars ranging from sport compacts to exotics. Good handling, braking, and high power to weight are important me. Honestly, the YBR250/YS250 appears weak in this regard.

Bike must be reliable. I am good with a wrench, but I don’t want a bike that presupposes that fact. Wrenching should be limited to maintenance, adjustment, and upgrades, not major repair.

I want to buy enough bike and buy once. I hate selling and horse trading. Regarding resale I would likely dispose of it after five years, might keep it, not sure.

I’d like to spend less than 20k RMB, I can easily spend 30k. You could talk me up 50k, but the bike would have really be something special across all my use cases to drop that kind of coin. I lean towards the value end of the spectrum.

My day-to-day riding will be 95% tarmac, a significant portion of which is in atrocious condition. The bike also needs to get me up the occasional interesting dirt path.

I definitely want to ride down through Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. (hopefully with some of you hooligans) I’d also like to tour two-up in the mountains out west Yunnan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, maybe a trek to Everest base camp.

I am 182cm (82 cm inseam) 85kg. Two-up touring would include a compact 60kg pillion plus bags.

What’s your opinion of the bikes below vs my needs? What other bikes I should consider?

KTM Duke 390	49,800 RMB	India [mfd], China [assemb]
Kawasaki Z300	40,900 RMB (Z250 ABS)	Thailand
Honda CB300F	34,980 RMB (CBR300R)	Thailand
Suzuki GW250	23,880 – 25,880 RMB	China, Haojue JV
Yamaha YS250	19,800 RMB	China, Jianshe JV
Honda CBF190	14,800 RMB	China, Sundiro JV

I purposefully left off Benelli as they seem to have problems inconsistent with my reliability requirement. I have my concerns about KTM as well.