Just to keep the post going I will add my 2 cents.
Dan (the guy that started this post) should be to Fin Del Mundo about now as I passed him in Cali Columbia as I went north in Oct. I think he has a blog on here if anyone wants to check his progress.
IMHO as others have said anything can make it, met a rider on a 1943 Harley flat head heading south, he had already been on the road 14 months. But if I did it again it would be with something that I could get nobbies on. I rode 22,600 miles in South and Central America on a Buell XB12X and took it down four times, twice in mud and twice in loose gravel.
But after seeing the '43 HD making it I get the urge to prep my '53 Indian and see how far I can get.
So if you are buying a bike for the big trip, get one that will do it all, if you have a bike you like, just go for it.
Bob
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