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Hi from UK. Africa trip.
Hello all. I’m in the very early stages of planning a trip from Kenya to SA on a motorbike supporting a friend who is cycling Cairo - Cape Town, June/July next year.

I can’t do the whole trip hence aiming to do part.

Current thinking is buy a bike (Honda CB 125) in Kenya and freight it home from SA. I don’t need anything big or fast as I’ll just be riding with a cyclist and the CB seems ubiquitous throughout sub-saharan Africa.

Any thoughts and tips gratefully received together with directions to the best place on here to post specific questions.
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Hi and welcome to the HUBB.
I posted some detailed information and travelling suggestions on Southern Africa in this thread:
https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hu...469#post613107


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Thanks Vaufi
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Hello all. I’m in the very early stages of planning a trip from Kenya to SA on a motorbike supporting a friend who is cycling Cairo - Cape Town, June/July next year. ...

Current thinking is buy a bike (Honda CB 125) in Kenya and freight it home from SA. I don’t need anything big or fast as I’ll just be riding with a cyclist and the CB seems ubiquitous throughout sub-saharan Africa.

Any thoughts and tips gratefully received together with directions to the best place on here to post specific questions.
I'm not sure how much help it will be however thought that you might like to have a look at https://unochoenafrica.blogspot.com which covers our trip from Nairobi to Cape Town and back in 2017. We travelled with a Land Cruiser not a bike (although I've travelled some intermediate bits of this route on a bike, many years ago). Even so it may be helpful to have a look at the relevant posts to get some ideas. Nearly all posts are in both English and Spanish.
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The CB125 is a good choice especially as you are not planning travelling too fast, hopefully the situation will allow your trip to go ahead.
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Thanks all.

I can see I’ll be back with more questions. I do think the biggest question of all will be whether Covd allows it at all.
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There are a couple of threads on UKGSER.com following gentleman that bought a Suzuki 125 and in the first thread bought it and went on tour with his friend who was on a BMW GS (I can't remember the precise flavour) from Congo down to South Africa and in the second thread he went from South Africa up the east coast of Africa to Tanzania. It may provide you with food for thought and also confirmation that it is possible (which it clearly is).

The threads are much more than a technical appraisal of the bikes and there are stacks of photos of life on the road. They are a fun read.

The threads are here:

https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showth...g-in-the-Congo

https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showth...of-Father-Jack
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Thanks. The blogs are compulsive reading.
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The chap on the 1150gs did a lap of Africa - down the west side to SA and up the east side, over to Saudi and back to Europe
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