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Re: [ST] Fwd: Long Way Round



On Jan 11, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Brian D . wrote:
> IIRC the bmw's broke down at least twice.  Once with a cracked
> (sub)frame, and once from an ABS malfunction that somehow made the bike
> unrideable.
>
> Tiggers probably would have done about the same.

Yeah, those big bikes really are too big and heavy for the kind of 
terrain they faced on this trip.  They probably would have been better 
off with the F650 Dakar or a Kawasaki KLR650--lighter, thus less likely 
to fall over, and easier to pick up when it does.
- --
Blake Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
San Mateo, CA (USA)


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