Timo,
Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I'll persuade the seller to throw the shocks in with the bike but as he's a Roll Royce-trained mechanic, I'm unlikely to get them cheap.
I'll certainly add the bigger pots. In fact much of my touring is back-roads stuff - nice twisty country roads and quite a lot of dirt.
The two-up trip we're planning takes us from South Africa, via Zimbabwe (oh, yeah, better have a LOOOOOONG-range tank) to Mozambique and Malawi. The quickest route goes right up the middle of Zim.
It's not a highway (a lot of it's even two lane) but it is a truck route. Having been caught out after dark on my knackered XT on the same road once, I have no wish to repeat the experience of trucks being faster than me. Ever.
Although it would be nice - should one be idiotic enough to ride an African truck route after dark - to stick behind a nice fat lorry and let it deal with the aimless cows and donkeys. But I digress.
Thanks for the help.
cheers
PK
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