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Originally Posted by mollydog
Great report! Best I've seen in Ride Tales!
Excellent photo work!
Seems like you're coping well with your DR650 in the deep sand. Impressive.
How is the bike holding up overall?
I do OK on mine with Knobbies fitted ... not so good with street tires if really deep sand. (Baja)
Fantastic waves, epic beach shots ... and very little tourism. Sounds like
Surfer Heaven to me.
Ride safe, Ride Far ... Pray For Surf! 
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Coping with deep sand, but it ain't pretty..
The Mefo explorer front feels absolutely terrible on anything by tarmac - going to try to change to a TKC 80 in Togo or Ghana. Should have left with one mounted, really.
Your posts from years gone by actually helped me select and kit out the DR for the trip mollydog..
Bike is doing very well so far approaching 24K - that's 7K miles on this trip and 5K just before shipping it to London on the Oregon BCDR and Northern Continental Devide route + transit back to CA.
It's holding up better than the gear, really which seems to keep breaking. Who knew that JB weld was good for fixing moto boots? Even managed to break my pelican case! No problems with the bike other than an occasional annoying knock on a hot restart that I've read about from other owners and would love to diagnose properly. I'm due for oil change and valve check pretty quick now.
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