RTW: 1 bike vs many
Hello everyone,
I'm looking to depart from Texas on a RTW August 2018. The amount of time I am spending agonizing over bike selection really seems to come down to agonizing about trip philosophy: precision vs incognito, performance vs experiences, minimalist vs optimized etc.
Anyway, my main issue is trying to decide between a multi-bike or single bike approach. i.e. one for the whole trip or roughly one per continent?
It seems like shipping the bike is a tremendous expense (not to mention the complexity) that could be avoided by buying multiple bikes in addition to having smaller, less complicated bikes for places like South America and Africa. If I kept the same bike, I like the idea of doing the ferry from SA to Europe but I would prefer to ride from Cape Town to Europe vs other way round.
I used to live in Germany, so I'm thinking it would be pretty easy to pick up a bike there or elsewhere in Europe, no experience buying and selling elsewhere. Right now I'm planning to use a Mosko Moto Reckless 80 (reckless) so swapping luggage shouldn't be too difficult and I'm going to try to carry as little as possible.
I'm thinking maybe....
Buy Texas, Sell Paraguay (or other tax free zone)
Buy South Africa, Sell? (ideas appreciated)
Buy Europe, Sell Australia or Ship home?
Thoughts? apologies if this has been discussed at length already
I have a 2001 F650gs Dakar in the garage right now but I am considering replacing it with a CRF250L, Super Sherpa etc for South America
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