Most of the mileage is on obvious roads that appear on any map. As far as Limon, the road is freshly paved, therefore a total delight on any machine. After Limon there's about three hours of single lane dirt and gravel, but it's not difficult at all, at least in the absence of hard rains. This road showed on only one of my three bad maps. Head out of Limon asking directions towards Cuenca, and at the only possible place to go wrong (about 20 minutes), take the right fork past a little police guardhouse and gasolinera. That might be your last chance to confirm that you're on the right road. Beautiful country until the town before Cuenca, where it becomes humdrum again. Even in the lowlands, you're still at an altitude of 600 meters and above, so it gets rather warm but not blindingly hot.
I don't use a GPS. Mostly I rely on two of my ten sentences of spoken Spanish: "Por aqui se va a Cuenca?" You could explore endlessly down that way with a dual sport. Enjoy!
Mark
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