Hello all!!

My girlfriend and I are planning a 3 month trip from the uk, down to morocco (maybe for 3 weeks), then when Europe gets a bit warmer, head back north, go along the top of the Mediterranean Coast, down into Italy, then back up through the alps home to the uk. Can't wait!! We leave in April this year.

I'll be on a xl700v transalp, and my gf on a cb500x. The cb500x is a nice bike for my gf as she is a novice rider and this is her first big bike.

However, I need your help!

Neither of us have done much off road (my gf none, and me some as a kid up muddy fields and tracks). We would love to get off road a bit in morocco. But our bikes have trail tyres only.., the transalp has Tourances, and the cb500x has Scorpian Trail tyres. They are both about 90/10 I reckon, however neither are knobblies... And Chris Scott and others recommend knobblies and knobblies only. completely. 90% road 10% off road would be about right for our whole Europe trip, but I'm worried for the morocco bit. I don't really want to take a set of tyres just for morocco, or have to just stick to tarmac.

Obviously we don't want to go mad mental off road in morocco due to my gf's novice riding ability (and relatively non-hardcore adventure bike), but it would be nice to get off the tarmac and get away into wilderness a little bit.

(Finally my question!)

So... May I ask, are there pistes that we could suitably get on fine with, with our trail tyres? Or do we really need to get knobblies? The morocco overland routes don't really give this type of detail. Are these graded roads I read about doable?

If the tyres and our skill levels are suitable for some areas, can anyone recommend some interesting routes that might be suitable for our first trip??

Thanks so much!!

Stretch


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