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Thanks for that Tim,

I am glad I got a reply from you, you seem to know the place rather well!

I will take a 5 litre can with me for the deep desert bits. Pegs don't like to get low on fuel! I have a petrol stove, so I have a super emergency 1.5 litres as long as I don't want any tea! This should give me a good range without worrying too much.

I will take a good look at your suggestions. Its my only chance and I want to get the full cup full!

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I get the impression you're rather attached to your Pegaso.

You're a braver man than me... Pack a spare wiring loom.
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I don't know who you are and don't know how brave you are.

My Pegaso will go wherever a 250 KTM will go and after 15 000 miles on her and going a long way from home, she has ever only gone pop once, and that was the ignition switch.

Never known or heard of the wiring loom to be a problem.

Thanks for the encouragement.
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I don't know who you are and don't know how brave you are.

My Pegaso will go wherever a 250 KTM will go and after 15 000 miles on her and going a long way from home, she has ever only gone pop once, and that was the ignition switch.

Never known or heard of the wiring loom to be a problem.

Thanks for the encouragement.

There was no discouragement... Just a tip of the hat to you. Travelling on probably the most unreliable bike to ever be made in the history of mankind.

But that's half the fun isn't it


Joking aside, have a chat with Paddy Tyson from Overland magazine. He's done a lot of miles all around on his so he could give you some great advice..

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Can you tell me how it its the most unreliable bike in the world? Seems a bit judgemental?

I think you'll find Paddy's bike, Peggy, was the mk2 pegaso. Paddy, does get upset with Peggy, but it is 15 years old, and isn't likely to be in good shape after all the many miles he has done on her.

All bikes break down, and bike snobery really gets on my goat. My Pegaso mk3 is a great bike, wonderful for small people (you can laugh at my diminuitive stature if you want to, in a kind of top gear way), but I and her get me to the places I want to go. Far from the madening GS adventure crowd!

And, funnily enough, I do know my bike, I strip her down every year. I can tell you every function of the ECU pin if I have to prove it.

I am problably not what you initallly thought I was. Go easy on people you don't agree with please.

Saying that, I may just be joking.
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I will take a 5 litre can with me for the deep desert bits.
In that case take an old one that you can throw away because I don't think you'll need it.

On the other hand, you might want to consider taking extra water. Hopefully the weather will be a fairly warm 24ºC to 28ºC, but it can get much hotter in May. I start each day drinking half a litre of water before setting off in the morning and travel with a 3-litre Kriega hydration backpack. In remote areas I add two 1.5-litre plastic bottles of water in the panniers.



Don't pay much attention to nay sayers. Any bike will do, this is what I used on my first trip to Africa in 1972.

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I start each day drinking half a litre of water before setting off in the morning and travel with a 3-litre Kriega hydration backpack. In remote areas I add two 1.5-litre plastic bottles of water in the panniers.



Don't pay much attention to nay sayers. Any bike will do, this is what I used on my first trip to Africa in 1972.
Very good hydration advice. Also, if consuming lots of "beverages" the night before ... drink as much water as you can before bed. You'll be a bit less dehydrated in the AM.

1972?
Wow! Is that an old Norton ... or?

I really need to start converting my thousands of slides to digital one of these days. Lots from the 70's/80's pre digital.
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It's a TriBSA 750 Cafe Racer.

The Triumph 650cc engine was overhead valve and easier to tune, so this one was bored out to 750cc, some skimming of the head to raise the compression ratio, coupled to a BSA Gold Star RRT2 gearbox with very close ratios, first was good for 70 mph. This was then mounted in a BSA duplex-cradle frame—much stiffer than the Triumph equivalent.

Clip-on handlebars on the front forks, rear-sets to move the footpegs and controls further back. Then custom tanks and other bits.

No good off-tarmac but great on Moroccan roads. I was riding it in Morocco in August 1972 when there was an assasination attempt on King Hassan II. The security forces, unbeknown to me, were on top alert, and I was doing about 80 mph on a beautiful blacktop when I saw a roadblock ahead. Came to a skidding stop just inches from the stingers (US: stop sticks).

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