Yep, I don't mind black with yellow either - gaiters kind of balance out the number plate and anyway, it's how it all came. Height: all I did was fit a longer shock but with a redrilled lower mount + trail bike front end. I am sure something will fit a CBF - another great engine in need of longer le...

Hi all, I just took my nearly finished Suzuki GS500 Overlander out for a spin and it didn't break in half or jam a wheel. Basically, it's a stock GS hack with an SV650 shock and DR650 front end + DR6 back hub/rotor/brake - all on 19-inch Talons. The tyres are a bit back to front right now but I just...

Hi Steve I'm not sure I'd rush off and flog my 800 for a 650 - both are great bikes. I just set out to see if the less flash 650 was an OK dirt bike and, thanks to non-OE tyres, low seat and the nice, traceable engine, it was. I also think that for real world road riding a 19-inch front is better an...

Greetings ABRs. I recently got lent a new F650GS SE to take Morocco to update my Morocco guidebook. I asked for the 650 twin in particular (not the Sertao offered, or the 800) as I believe it's a better all-round overlander than the 800: lower, tubeless, lighter, 19" front, less revvy. The SE h...

"... what are your current / future travel plans."

Hi Selous. Just back from Tamanrasset, 30 years on, but with camels this time. We were the only tourists around. Would be nice to go back there on a bike - still got a few places to tick off there.

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Thanks all for your interest and positive comments. Plenty more where that came from. Who’s that bloke crawling about in the gravel - looks like a porn star having a bad trip ;--)) Daring/stupid just about sums it up - or clueless. When you don’t know much, there’s not much to put you off. Maybe tha...

oops, pressed the wrong button - where were we... on a hill http://www.overlanders-handbook.com/kitkat/i82-onahill.jpg Down the road the TSH unrolled like a ribbon. You can clearly see the old piste which itself would have followed an ancient camel trading route long before the French arrived. (Ther...

oops, pressed the wrong button - where were we... on a hill http://www.overlanders-handbook.com/kitkat/i82-onahill.jpg Down the road the TSH unrolled like a ribbon. You can clearly see the old piste which itself would have followed an ancient camel trading route long before the French arrived. (Ther...

Hello, let's start at the beginning (for me). This is how it was back in the day, before the inch-thick Touratech catalog, when you sent postcards not texts, when you made your gear out of scrap metal you found in skips, and when you navigated with a rosary, not a GPS. This is the story of my first ...