What do you mean by road work on it, @Six30? You take roadbikes on a van, so get an EXC and drive it to near where you want to ride.
Here people ride any WRF or CRF or EXC with average care, and they seem to be ok and pretty much bulletproof. There’s a guy on Sofia’s town that rides a CRF250F to commute locally and it keeps going around.