Are you so well off financially, that you'll stand to lose your brand new 2013 1200GS completely? The reason I'm asking is, that it seems extremely difficult to find anyone to insure a motor vehicle (the vehicle itself, I mean) for a complete RTW-tour.
In many 3rd world countries, if you wreck it, or it gets stolen, or drops into a river, or whatever, it is gone, and your insurance back home will be no use (at least some years ago this was the way it is, and I'm 99% certain theres been no major change).
I know it sort of belongs to this type of travel to take calculated risks. And some people are rich enough they don't care, or just simply don't care. But for me that also says try to choose a cheaper bike, because many of them will be fully capable as well. And I'm certain there will be other views than mine on this as well.
And even if nothing really bad happens to your bike on the trip, it will get more than a few scratches and look well used, when you return. So its resale value goes down, a new bike's value will naturally be worst hit by this.
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