DR650 conquers Africa!

**mollydog** · #1 31 Oct 2008

Mark Hammond reports from Dakar. Check out his very entertaining blog. His DR650 is doing really well so far.
RIDE FAR | Mark Hammond

**Flyingdoctor** · #2 31 Oct 2008

Thanks for the link.

I need a bit of armchair adventure this winter whilst I save up for my next trip.

**mollydog** · #3 13 Nov 2008

Some good comments regards the DR's performance in some fairly rough going.

RIDE FAR | Mark Hammond

**LukasM** · #4 13 Nov 2008

Thanks for the reminder Patrick. I remember a post from Mark on ADVrider where he compared it to his previous KLR. Obviously the DR is better!

Looks like he has the bike set up very nicely with all the popular farkles. I'll start catching up on his blog posts as I also want to do Africa on the DR at some point.

Cheers,
Lukas

**jophiel** · #5 6 Apr 2010

I'm sorry for reviving a long dead thread, but does anyone know what happened to mark? His blog stopped abrubtly and I tried googling him and this was all that came up.

I hope he's alright, that blog was a huge inspiration for my own trip!

Jophiel

**Ride Far** · #6 22 Apr 2010

Quote:

Originally Posted by jophiel

I'm sorry for reviving a long dead thread, but does anyone know what happened to mark? His blog stopped abrubtly and I tried googling him and this was all that came up.

I hope he's alright, that blog was a huge inspiration for my own trip!

Jophiel

I'm fine, made it to Cape Town no problem, back in the states now and looking forward to returning to Africa for an east side ride and making my way to India / Himalayas / Mongolia in the next year or two.

**jophiel** · #7 15 May 2010

Good to hear mate

Happy trails!