Central America on a street bike?
Hello everyone!
I have been researching and reading through these forums for the last few months and have gained so much knowledge. So thank you already!
Heres the story:
Myself and two friends (Canadian female and 2 Australian males), will be travelling from somewhere in the north western U.S (portland etc.) to Panama. Hopefully all on motorcycles. Us two males are competent riders while our female companion is sound although were not looking at doing to much hardcore off roading. Although we'd like to get off the beaten track everywhere necessary.
We dont have an exact route yet, but we know we want to spend most of our time in C.A. We will be leaving aproximately september and hope to reach panama by mid december.
My main question is about the bikes we should be looking to pick up. There are a few issues. Seeing as we are all quite young 18-23, we dont have a plentiful supply of paper in our wallets, so we were hoping to have the bikes bought and set up fairly cheaply. Were also not looking at doing to much crazy off road riding.
Based on this, would it be possible to take a bike such as a GS500 or the like on this trip. Say a road bike with fairly nice suspension and ground clearance. The canadian has a yamaha virago 250 that she would also like to enquire as to its potential to happily complete this journey.
We will be travelling very light so carrying capacity isnt an issue, mainly just the off road handling and how much off road we can expect given our circumstances above.
Thanks for any help, we're all too keen
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