Hello and a question!
Hi all!
I'm new here, and am a Brit living temporarily in Colorado, USA. I've been riding about 4 or 5 years, and in that time have done a few 4000mile+ touring trips in Europe and the US. My first bike was a Suzuki DL650, and my current bike is a Moto Guzzi California 1400.
I'm starting to get the itch to travel somewhere a bit more out of my 'western world' comfort zone, and like the idea of trips down through South America, Africa and across Asia in the future, so find myself reading this forum more often and thought I should join.
The catch keeping me from my adventure traveling dreams? I have a day job, and am never going to be able to get enough time off to take 6 months or a year to go traveling. Best I'm ever likely to get at one time is 3 months.
My plan, therefore, is to get a big Adventure bike (probably a Yamaha Super Tenere) and do my traveling at fairly high speed. I've done 800 mile riding days before, so can cope with high mileage days if I have to. But the more I read about RTW travel, it seems most people say it's only worth doing if you're able to take a year out to do it slowly on a 250cc single, exploring everywhere properly as you go. While I'd love to be able to do this, I just can't if I want to keep my job.
So my question is this... is doing overland traveling at pace on a large bike better than nothing, or is it only worth doing if you have the time (and light bike) to explore all the little off the beaten track places as you go?
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