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I've no knowledge of the Chinese licence situation but what a trip, sounds great! Subscribed to your Youtube channel in anticipation - Bon voyage 
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Thank you very much for for your words of encouragement YW. We have been overwhelmed by the response to this adventure from the biking community worldwide, there are some truly amazing people out there. Cheers LoboI've no knowledge of the Chinese licence situation but what a trip, sounds great! Subscribed to your Youtube channel in anticipation - Bon voyage
Nice one, thank you very much for your words of encouragement - please do follow our progress on the Youtube Channel, we will get better at filming!
Posh people use Slaithwaite. Plus Slawit is easier to spell.
Just an observation, we tried to keep our topbox as empty as possible, thus allowing us to store jackets and gloves in it when we stopped in cities towns of interest. A 3k jaunt through Europe is on a different scale to you though 
Hi again Steve. That would be the ideal but would be too much of a luxury for us on this trip. Linda and I have a soft pannier each for clothes and the Oxford bag on top is for very lightweight camping gear like sleeping bags. The topbox will be for our tent, spares and tools which we are sharing with Richard and Jude the other couple. For our kit in the circumstances you describe, we have a wire loop and a 'u' lock and we will secure them on our seat. One top tip we were given was to carry a plain bike cover and to cover the bikes up whenever we leave them for any length of time - it will make them invisible! We have been warned about Indonesia with the bikes because of the massive import duties there on foreign bikes, ours will be very valuable and really stand out, so the bike covers will be our friend there. Please do keep any suggestions coming, I'm just about to do a short film about the tech we have chosen for the trip. Cheers LoboJust an observation, we tried to keep our topbox as empty as possible, thus allowing us to store jackets and gloves in it when we stopped in cities towns of interest. A 3k jaunt through Europe is on a different scale to you though
I wouldn't worry too much about bike theft in Indonesia, maybe more about the traffic. Just keep that block of butter in the fridge and you'll be fine. Always makes me laugh when I overtook a police car there at over a ton and he didn't pull me over. My Indonesian friend said there are three reasons, it's because you're rich, connected or rich and connected.
Just stumbled across this thread, how did I miss it ??
Subscribed and keenly looking forward to watching your Youtube episodes to cheer and distract me from the heartache of my dog having just passed away suddenly.
We are about the same age, ride matching motorcycles and I used to live down under myself so I am keen to follow your adventures and see if the 1250GSA is up to the job.
Good luck.
Subscribed and keenly looking forward to watching your Youtube episodes to cheer and distract me from the heartache of my dog having just passed away suddenly.
We are about the same age, ride matching motorcycles and I used to live down under myself so I am keen to follow your adventures and see if the 1250GSA is up to the job.
Good luck.
I'm in 
Wishing you a safe trip! Epic stuff.
Wishing you a safe trip! Epic stuff.
I dont know about you, but I feel rejected and unloved.
Lobster - Last seen Oct 7, 2023 -just four days after the thread started!
Clearly the power of the internet/socialmedia/fame means that we no longer need to be pandered to and spponfed with every twist and turn.
Or something else......................
They made it home safe . Quite a trip
I don`t think so....
"Currently having passed through Malaysia and now in Thailand making our way to Laos and then into China for leg 3"
I read this on their interweb just now, so it must be true.
They are home
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