Planning
As someone who has just done RTW, I would second the V Strom. Mine has been brilliant, and what people often miss is fuel range and gas mileage. There is no use have a large bike doing 45mpg when the 650 strom will do 66, so its 17 litre tank will get you up to 400kms. Despite this I carried a 5 litre can as in places like Kazakhstan fuel stations are few since every cars run on lpg gas. Also in northern Australia fuel stops were 350kms apart with NOTHING in between. I rode two up with luggage so the bike is up to it plus I could get it serviced even in India.
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Tim & Sue Angus
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