You suggest:Challenging trails/goat tracks in Sth Am

[Simon D]

I`m looking for silly ideas for a track here. Some of you must be as silly as I, or at least would like to encourage me off into the unknown? Yes, I must be getting bored.

Most of the route ideas I have found on the hubb are based on the scenery or with the purpose of linking places of interest. But doesn`t anybody else look at google maps, for example, to discover what appears to be a trail that isn`t on any map?

It can be a trail for goats, donkeys, natives, 4wds only, or whatever. Just preferably either legal, or with a low chance of the police stopping me. The only idea i have so far is a track through the Amazons region of Brazil, from Porto Velho to near the Venezuelan border mainly near a train line. And I read on the HUBB that French Guyana to Brazil sounds fun. Eastern Sth Am is preferred since I`ve already ridden down the west coast, but will consider all ideas.

If it helps your conscious to know, I have a `07 640 Adventure with 25-30kg of luggage (10kg of which is tools, mainly near the bashplate) in soft Ortlieb panniers/bag (waterproof, & bag floats). And part of the reason I want to go for a `proper` ride is that pretty much every weekend of my non-travel life for the past 20yrs I am either practicing at a MX track, in the forest, or racing. So dirt biking in the forest on another continent would be fun, even if current bike is a little heavy. I race Expert class in Enduro and have also covered about 120,000 on loaded bikes. My brother is somewhere on this continent too, on same bike, and may join if it sounds like fun.

You never know, we may be rewarded with a fun trail and great scenery, and if not, then at least the will taste really good at the end. Thank you in advance…