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Suppose you had a year for a round the world ride
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Suppose you had a year for a round the world ride.
What would be your choice of bike, gear and route ?
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What about this bike?
It's followed everywhere by a mobile garage and a TV crew. You'd be
all set!
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V-strom.
The long way 'round.
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If I though I could make it from one end to the other without
getting assasinated in the name of some deity, I'd love
to take a shot at the silk road across Asia.
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Have you seen the Ewan McGregor/Charlie Boorman trek? They went via
Mongolia and Siberia.
Flash, and I can't make it work)
Was broadcast on Bravo TV, and the DVD is available from Amazon and lots
of other sites.
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The bike would probably be a carefully rehabed
BMW airhead with perhaps a few aftermarket
add ons and aluminum panniers (Jesse ?).
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Happy Trail Tetons for a V-strom.
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Ewan and Charlie rode R1150GS's, donated by BMW after Kawasaki backed
out, once they found out the nature of the ride. But yes, an R100GS
would do; get a Paris-Dakar tank.
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ITYF that it was KTM, not Kawasaki who backed out.
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Yeah, something that starts with a K... ;-)
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Probably a Rukka suit. Not 100% certain what gear
other than a healthy credit card, a locator beacon
and some medivac insurance.
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A good set of paper maps for each section; make sure lat/lon is shown on
them. Food and camping gear. Large gas tank. Pre-planned locations for
new tires of the appropriate size?
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One can dream.
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