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Originally Posted by DougieB
you've made quite a few mods to your GS, it's not exactly stock (including strengthened frame, headlights, exhaust, electrical work, radiator protection, etc).
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In fairness, Margus is riding RTW to some very gnarly places.
I've not ridden the DL, so I can't comment on the springs, but one thing that I would have been wary of, had I bought one, was the oil cooler: perfeclty placed to get a stone in the chops on a gravel road.
My take on it is this:
As far as protecting the bike, if either of these were to slip on gravel even at a standstill, I'd guess that, without the boxer engine to keep the bike off the ground, the DL could come off a lot worse, in terms of plastics etc, and plastics are the bane of a biker's bank account.
I have embarassingly dropped a number of bike at a standstill, GS included, and it was barely noticeably on the cylinder head. Where my numerous poor Hondas and a mint Kawasaki suffered for my clumsiness...
Applying the same logic, doing the trip on any of the road bikes that Ted mentioned is equally possibly, on that same understanding that they will probably suffer from any falls to a greater degree...
If Richard86 can live with that possibility, then fine.
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Originally Posted by DougieB
I think, on the Internet, you have to be careful with brand evangelists.
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I think brand orientated prejudice, for, but equally against, is no good thing.
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