know your bike
yep plenty good advice there again. of course you could stay on asphalt or decent dirt for a whole south am trip, but you would miss a lot IMO. and maybe do a lot of backtracking.
thing is the dirt roads can be disastrously rough, and may turn from decent to shocking without much warning or a logical reason (such as town, mine or whatever). also, i have found good maps of s. am. countries hard to come by and even newish ones are inaccurate. point is, be prepared. ground clearance is good, so are low tyre pressures. we are travelling two-up on an r11gs, and made space for a compressor.
anyhow was going to say, whatever you take, make sure you know it well in terms of maintenance and repairs, and take whatever tools you know how to use IMO. and a manual.
beg to differ with waterfox - just like all other makes, BMW sources parts from catalogues, so availability isn't that much of a drama in my experience. though he is right that there are plenty of honda signs around.
enjoy,
andy
|