{"id":788,"date":"2018-02-11T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoveringtheworld.de\/?p=788"},"modified":"2020-10-04T21:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:33:58","slug":"motorcycles-for-the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rtw-trip.com\/motorcycles-for-the-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycles FOR the trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew. The decision was not easy.<\/p>\n

After a lot of back and forth – Honda or BMW – 250 cubic or more … we have finally made one of the most important decisions for our great journey: we are driving two BMW G650 GS Sertaos.<\/p>\n

The main criteria were: comfort, handling, equipment options, weight and driving pleasure. In terms of weight, the Honda CRF 250 would have won, but we would probably have overloaded it for our 12-plus-x-month trip, plus we will probably be riding very bad roads but little real off-road, so the desire for comfort won out and we bought the second Sertao yesterday. We had already bought the first one in November.<\/p>\n

Also Finn, our curious workshop cat, has already sniffed the newcomer extensively and found it good.<\/p>\n

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Since the November machine is already lowered, the newcomer is not – and both are otherwise well maintained, I will now use the November machine and Wolfgang the newcomer (maybe we should get names for the bikes, then I can get by with fewer words :-)).<\/p>\n

Now the conversions and extensions can begin:<\/p>\n