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Originally Posted by Nuff Said
Last year in Thailand I has the pleasure and honour to watch and follow the guys and ladies racing on the BMW GS trophy race in Thailand.
I was on my Honda CRF250l and with a lot of knowledge of the tracks, we were riding on. During ALL of the stages, i was finding very difficult to keep up with the BMW even on a CRF250?
Big Bike in THE RIGHT HANDS can ride offroad but to be fair these people competing in the GS Trophy was the best of the best from all over the world.

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Pics not showing up ... I heard photo bucket has gone belly up?
You may want to change Photo hosting site. I use SmugMug. Never fails.  
True, an expert rider can push a big bike to crazy places. I've done it in the past but no longer consider it much fun ... also beats the shit out of a very expensive motorcycle. I've seen NEW, $25K motorcycles reduced to trash in 3 or 4 days of "Adventure" riding.
Question of right tool for the job. Does anyone think if Ewan & Charlie knowing what they know now, would take R1150GS's across Mongolia again ? ... or would they go on a small, lighter weight bike? I think the later is pretty certain.
(especially when you've got a full crew carrying all your crap!  )
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