questions LISBON / TIMBOUCTU

[8340SU]

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I have a bmw650gs / i don't have much off road experience / i have read 'adventure motorcycling handbook' and 'sahara overland' / I'm just back from a morocco 12 days, 6500kms trip (i located the starting points of some of chris scott pistes, but we were 2 on the bike, me and a girl, and we didn't do any of them, just some 30/40 kms) / i took a gps, i think i can handle it
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In mid april / may i intent to go to Timbouctu
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Questions:
Is too much for me going alone?
(the alternative would be to persuade a friend of mine who has a 1150gs with no off road experience as well)

Is it too risky concerning the weather? (temperature around Atar/ South Mauritania and Mali - begin of the rain season near Niger river)

Can i do M13 / R1/2/4-8 /?
What about R10? and B2/3?
Can i manage it without the 200 000 maps ?

One month from Lisbon to Timbouctu and back, doing some of the pistes, is it enough?

What tires should i buy? apparently T63 doesn't fit neither some other options alike - the alternatives being metezeler tourance/michelin anakee?
The bmw panniers are they hard enough to this trip (i guess i know this one...)

Am i forgetting something?

Wish someone could help me.
thanks



[This message has been edited by 8340SU (edited 25 January 2006).]