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Originally Posted by Mortis
Any favorite roads over here you can recommend, I am looking at a BMW F800r and a Kawi Versys. both are slightly used (read both dropped at very low speed) Since the pricing is almost the same, with in a few hundred bucks. My goal is to "Adventure" the bike and eventually ride it from here to Canada. Can "Adventure" be a verb, meaning to put bags, racks and skid plates on it.
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Talking with different folks who are currently doing 'around the world' rides, clean gas still remains the biggest problem, and that's easily fixed by having a self-maintainable external gas filter. Adventure bikes are the new 'marketing goal' for most big bike companies so this should be easy to add to any bike. Do a search at
http://www.webbikeworld.com for Adventure Bikes and you'll get a wealth of ideas.
There used to be a road from Cherating, on the east coast, that ran north-west up through the Tamon Negara jungles, then west till it joined up with a road that came back down south-west through the Cameron Highlands... It was a hell of a trek, and our biggest problems back then were clean gas and washed out road, but it made for a heck of a trip! For all I know, today that road might be a dual carriageway lined with McD's and 7-Elevens. I haven't been on it in more than 10 years, and Malaysia has put down thousands of miles of new highway in those years!
Stitchawl