We (that's me and my riding buddy Bushman) rode east to west last year from the UK. We shippred to Baltimore and then rode 19 US states before shipping our bikes to Vladivostok from Seattle (we flew to Vlad via Bejing from Vancouver to meet the bikes)
The reason we did the ride east to west was not scientific.... my pal Bushman wanted to be able to get to the end of the journey and ride up to the front door of his house. If we had gone east then our journey would have finished in the USA at some port on the east coast and we would have been picking our bikes up from Southampton 3 weeks later - a bit of an anti-climax. So Bushman got his dream and it was a great trip. We left the UK in April and had good weather for almost all the journey and we arrived home 5 months later.
We did the trip on thumping great 2007 model 1200GS's - no problems, no punctures, no issues at all.
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