I just had the chance to ride from Senegal to Europa with 2 AfricaTwins. The old and the very new one http://schoene-motorradtouren.de/?report=senegal
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Originally Posted by mollydog
One thing I would hope Honda address in the Africa Twin is it's lack of horsepower.
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There was never a way we had a lack of horespower. SpeedLimit was 100 km/h, we were on holliday, lots of animales and people on the road and no police was chasing us but the consumtion of petrol was to high. If we would have traveled by car we would have saved a lot.
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Originally Posted by Endurodude
adventure sport'
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Adventure starts were the asphalt stops but on gravel or mud you cant even get 50 horsepower on the ground without the wheels spinning. Thats also why traveling makes the tires last much longer. While traveling with luggage you dont exelerate and use your brakes so hard.
For real adventure both AfricaTwins were waaay to heavy. Think of situations were you manover on a crowdet marked place to park in front of a restaurant to be able to watch your stuff while eating or of you try to reach a nice wild camping spot in the evening.
I prefere any rented 4 dollars per day scooter that i use to ride for thousends of kilometers in India or Asia to this. The light and easy to manover 125cc scooters have more adventure riding qualitys as any new "adventure bikes" on the marked and can go 100 km per hour as well but with just 3 liters on 100 km: http://adventure-travel-experience.de/?report=mumbai
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