I'm planning on doing a little, well a lot, of touring this summer on my GS and was wondering if anybody had done a similar thing and would have any good recommendations for saddlebags, routes, or any other random piece of information or story that might help with trip planning/execution. Thanks!!
Seems like a long trip! I'd love to help, but I've barely been to work and back on my GS500E. And I bungee my lunch behind me.
Hope you have some contacts along the way. I'd hate to run into some bad luck and get stranded in another country with no safety net.
Good luck, and let us know how it works out. :)
Check out Kerry's webpage. He has many miles of touring experience and shares what he has done to his bike to prepare.
http://www.bbburma.net/index.htm (http://www.bbburma.net/index.htm)
-Porkchop
TamilNadu to argentina ... OK ... O0 ... TN, That's where I am from ... wooo hooo ...
From any part of Tamilnadu, Take the bike into the bay of bengal. Then cross it and you'll be in the south china sea area. Start going southern direction and you's cross the equator, then you just head west staying close to the equator till you almost make the date line. As soon as you crosin a s that date line, you'll be in yesterday and then you just head east south east. You may have to cross the andes, because there is that on the western coast of argentina. Dunno if GS500 can do that ... :thumb:
Cool.
Buddha.
If you are saying Tenesee to Argentian... Not gonna happen :cheers:
You will 100% be kidnapped, helled hostage for ransom or killed. (PERIOD)
It was a long time dream of mine to do the same thing in a Land Rover Discovery... Unles you have TONS of $$$ and about 3 years to spend on the trip and someone back home to bail you out of some serious trouble... its not going to work out.
Everything seemed semi safe except countries like Columbia, Nicaragua, Honduras and about 80% of the trip besides Mexico... :police:
Check out this forum for folks who have done what you are talking about:
http://www.advrider.com/ (http://www.advrider.com/)
I would start with a smaller trip inside your own country -- say 500 to 1,000 miles. Then do a 2,000 miler. THEN consider an international trip, but not one across that many countries.
Watch the documentaries Long Way Round and Long Way Down with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. It's pretty amazing what can happen, even with a ton of support (which you won't have).
By your question, it is obvious you have not done touring at all on your GS. I think a LOT of forethought would help you.
Here are some links to my trips (mostly on my GS500E):
Click here (http://myweb.cebridge.net/james.south/)
I'll second trumpetguy's advice. Check out advrider.com; they'll have all the route/travel/nonGS-specific stuff you'd ever want to know. As for gear, I think there was a guy here who did a decent sized loop of Oz with a big plastic tub bungied to the back not too long ago, so I'd say what fits and you can get...
Quote from: trumpetguy on June 03, 2009, 02:45:22 PM
Check out this forum for folks who have done what you are talking about:
http://www.advrider.com/ (http://www.advrider.com/)
I would start with a smaller trip inside your own country -- say 500 to 1,000 miles. Then do a 2,000 miler. THEN consider an international trip, but not one across that many countries.
Watch the documentaries Long Way Round and Long Way Down with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. It's pretty amazing what can happen, even with a ton of support (which you won't have).
By your question, it is obvious you have not done touring at all on your GS. I think a LOT of forethought would help you.
Here are some links to my trips (mostly on my GS500E):
Click here (http://myweb.cebridge.net/james.south/)
Good god they have some sexy women on that site....