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I had the standard tank, and had no problems with range. Good idea with the rear shocks. I fitted a pancake air filter, it looks better and works better than the standard one. Check the rubber hose between air filter and carb, that split on me so if you can replace it with some radiator hose from a car you can foget about it. Plastic gasket and plastic metal were useful. I don't think you need to take that much for this bike. Some good (long) tyre levers.
Just remembered, Hitchcocks do a stronger kick start return spring. The original one on my 500 kept coming off. Once I fitted the Hitchcocks one it never came off again.
My old army bags were excellent. I didn't have anything too important with me, nothing that couldn't be replaced. All my documents and things I just kept in a small rucksack on my back. Remember you're going to be travelling slow, so you'll need lots of water at times. That was a big hassle. Try attaching 3 x 2lt bottles to your bike. I hadn't even thought about that, and my pathetic attempts with string/rope/bungies always resulted in at least one bottle bouncing off.
After Oct05? I got myself into a spot of bother...
What route are you taking?
cheers,
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