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Originally Posted by Turbofurball
what weighting do you give on trips towards choosing ways to cover ground, or to finding places other people don't generally go? On many of the RTW vlogs I've seen people map out towns or villages as target destinations, I don't remember many cases of people looking at a map, saying "that looks interesting / weird, I'll just go over there for a couple of days and explore it" ... do many people do that and just not document it as much?
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Hello
Since you startet this thread with my quote, some more details to what I meant with that.
The context was "15 month RTW on 2018/19 Africa Twin with 80/20 on-road-off road".
The dream of riding a motorbike around the world is different to everybody, the intended routes/roads vary with different bikes.
If you are in a sand trak of loose sand with -v---v- shape frome the "Jepps" a heavy bike is no fun or not possible, depends on the rider what goes.
If you cross long streches of pavement with insane car/truck drivers a small bike is hell.
You have to look at the routes/roads you like to ride.
But as I said, if you dream of doing a RTW only on small tracks you really have to search for those that you can line up to make a route from A-B-C-D-E...-around the world.
Look at the TET in europe, those guys work really hard to find legal offroad track that fit together, the TAT was searched by a guy and you have to pay for the result.
That is what I meant with "you have to search for that."
It is easy in many places of the world to stay in a region where you can play in the sand for several days but to get to B you have to face the pavement.
You have also to find out what is fun to you to ride as a bike.
As a swiss, I had to ride a 125ccm toybike for two years, did a trip from Switzerland to England, never will I do that again.
To me, for "on/off road" RTW travelling the best compromise is a +/- 200kg 600-800ccm bike, I did it on the XT660Z.
In sand I hated the weight, on long streches of pavement I wished I had bought the XT1200Z.
Later I did buy the XT1200Z and I love it on pavement but coudn't have done the same routes as I did with the XT660Z.
I did begin with travelling by road bikes, Suzuki LS650 a 4 month/28tkm trip in europe and then I bought a Kawasaki ZG1200 in Alaska and rode it all over the west till Baja.
Great adventures to me and beside roadconstruction no sand/gravel.
I could do an other RTW on the XT600Z again or a more road orientated RTW on a Goldwing.
I would like to do some remote sandtracks in Australia, Iceland etc... on a small bike,
BUT I could not do a RTW on a small 200-300ccm toybike.
If I want to travel slow and meet locals I take my trike. (but not for a RTW, for that I would need 10-20 years to do it)
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