Recent content by protean

Hi guys, Thanks for your responses. I'm always grateful for the adv community, and I'll document what I'm doing as I do the trip to return info to the community. I've only just started route planning, so, candidly, the whole continent is terra incognito to me at the moment. I've done enough...

Hahaha. If you want to find me an XR, I'll return it to you specced with every bit of sexy hardware.

Yeah I thought that might be the case - I left it a bit long to do the trip. Same issue in Patagonia / on the Carretera Austral / Route 40 now - it's not quite the same with tour buses. The world is being turned into an endless Tripadvisor and Starbucks hellscape. It does give me a bit of...

Hi guys, I'm planning a trip from Capetown to Cairo, to start in the next few months. The first major task is the bike, which I'll buy either in Capetown or Johannesburg (so I should have a decent set of options). Whatever it is, I'll spend a good amount of money on mods, to get it into...