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Whats the longest fuel gap on the atlantic route?
I am planning to drive the atlantic ending in Bamako nad just wondered if anyone has up to date info on the gasoline situation on the atlantic route. Whats the longest distance between fuel stops on that route? Otherwise I will just have to risk it and take extra. By the way, whats the smallest bikes anyones taken down that route?
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The longest fuel Gap from Norway to Dakar is in :


Spain !!!. N4 road N323, from Jaen to Granada there are 125 km of no petrol stations during the Night , and Its not uncommon for overlanders to run out of petrol just there . he he .


Definitely is not Nouadibou->Nouachott. you can buy diesel in at least 12 different places on the road , and of course petrol wherever you see a yellow plastic drum .

Other than that , from Ceuta to Guerguerat there are petrol stations every 50-80 km , being the longest strech "Bir Guendiz" (that lovely petrol station with haimas , restorant , the white unimog and cats) to ->Nouadibou ( less than 200 km ) . God forbids you if you run out of petrol in the no-mans-land.

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I agree there's fuel stations all the way down the atlantic route but the problem is that they don't always have fuel.
The furthest I had to go was around 220 miles (after leaving Layoune) before I found a place with fuel.
Not a problem on four wheels but on a bike, unless you had a huge fuel tank, you'd probably be starting to worry.

Just to start the ball rolling on the smallest bike, I was on a 600cc Honda
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Fuel on The Atlantic Route
I'm with backofbeyond on this one. I did the Atlantic Route last November and I would not be comfortable with a fuel range of less than about 250 miles absolute minimum.

Assuming that you are on a motorbike, which I think you refer to, you will need petrol which is not the main fuel in the Western Sahara. There will be fuel stations that have run out of petrol (they do so regularly and it can be days before they are replenished).

In Mauritania, if you are taking the road from Nouadhibou to Nouakchott then it is about 450km without fuel stations. Yes, there are rogues selling stuff at the side of the road in 'bidons', but from what I've heard it's pot luck if you get petrol, or petrol and water, or petrol and diesel (this isn't Europe!!) and it's expensive. I personally would not chance it, but there again I am cautious by nature. Only you know if you are a 'wing it and see what happens' person or not.

As for what is the smallest bike that has done the route, well some guys did the Western Sahara on Honda C90 mopeds, but I think they did have a support vehicle (I may be wrong though). They have a website at Scooters in the Sahara

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Cool small bikes
Hopefully at this link you will see photographs I took at Nouakshot on the 06 Dakar, a pair of French plated mopeds at 49cc Kingston & District Motor Cycle Club (http://www.kdmcc.com/)
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The longest without fuel stations selling petrol is between here, N20 56.920 W17 02.190 at the roundabout at the edge of Nouadhibou (2 seperate fuel stations)......... and here, a few hundred metres North of the Auberge Sahara in Nouakchott N18 06.160 W15 59.823 It's 450kms. This was the situation in January 2007.
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