Coming from a non biker, I might get slaughtered fro this, but I have noticed a few interesting things in my last 3 months driving around East Africa.
1: All local bikes are between 125 and 250cc.
2: All biker overlanders with big bikes really struggle to get spares.
3: You normally don't go faster than 80km/h in East Africa.
Now, what I thought was GENIUS was a French guy I met in Jinja in Uganda. He flew into Entebbe and bought a second hand "Boda-Boda" (Baja 200cc I think), strapped some soft paniers to it and spent the next few months riding it around. His idea was to sell it again when he leaves.
That would be my advice. They only cost about £600 new. Spares are in every village and your fuel bill will be next to nothing.
Check out 2wherever for a blog about someone that has done a trans africa on one of these bad boys.
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