Thanks guys for the benefit of your thoughts and experience  .
My inner Western Wanker would love to do this trip on a BMW F800GS.... and whilst I could afford to make this choice... where I'm intending to travel I'm fearful of the high tech complexities of such a machine... am concerned about the weight of it and aware that I wont need all that lovely HP.... So I tried to persuade my WW side that Yamaha's XT660Z is almost as.... um... cool  .... yet less complex. A compromise if you will. But reading the majority of your comments confirms to me that this journey will be best served by making purely practical choices. And whilst the shallow WW within is underwhelmed by the DR650's street cred.... my Captain Sensible side tells me that keeping it simple is probably the way to go.
So cool though it aint, the DR650 - with a few tweaks - probably is the tool for the job. Deep down I knew this already. But I had to ask to shut that wanker up  .
Thanks again  .
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