Your mad thinking about doing it on the 525! I briefly (VERY briefly) considered doing Africa on a WR450 and I even spoke to Gary Benn who builds the desert racing/adventure bikes for a Yamaha racing team. When I put it to him could he make my bike into a machine to do the trip there was a silence..... then a "why would you want to do it on such an uncomfortable bike?" I then went and bought a DR650. I agree with the above comment that 98% of the time you will be in BMW800 country. Also since its already got 15,000 on it, thats going to finish up being A LOT of Km's for an Enduro engine. Im expecting to get 20,000km out my WR engine before it needs any major work, but not much more.
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