My little old '82 xt550, (mostly !) . 2xTrans Africa, multiple Euro trips and despatch work. Still going strong and cat approved....

What a great looking bike (and cat)! Much better than the random plastic nonsense that doubles for an adv bike today.

Looks like Iggy (the cat)will be needing extra fish tonight as a royalty reward for looking his best. :biggrin3:

Scratched around and found a few of my other old bikes on tour.

Camping out on the main track north in Cape York on a cx500 round Australia -1987/1988

Returning through Romania on a trip around the eastern bloc and Turkey on a battered £ 100 Yamaha xs400 called NFA. Strangly one of my all time fav touring bike. - 1989

In India on the ubiquitous Enfield Bullet 500 on a 3 month tour here there and everywhere.-2003

AAAHHH hey... I know where that picture was made... :D used to live and work near by (actually in Witney) and passed that spot endless times... what a small world... bier

still getting acquainted ... R80G/S

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My Kawasaki 8oo Vulcan Classic. Took her over the Alps twice, a few Jochs and the Stelvio. Hopefully she will get me to and around Turkey in June including the Kemaliye Stone Road. I know it is not the obvious overlanding bike but as they say, any bike will do...she did sofar.
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My first bike was a Yamaha AG 200, rock solid, loved it

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2002 xt 600 slow and steady wins the race!

I have two bikes now Hyosung gt 250 (v-tvin 30 bhp ) and a chinese built 150cc cruiser. I find the cruiser(ish ) bike more useful
as it is easy to fix and consumes so little that you don't worry about it. All viilagers use smilar bikes so I can find parts eassily.
A chinese bike in Turkey and the Gt abroad.

We're off to Africa on these
 

Cool eh?

Cool indeed but what are they?

Since I like smaller bikes it's nice to see that there are many 'normal' bikes here and not only the 'Charlie and Ewan' type of heavyweights.

I'm going on a 7000km trip through Europe on a Honda PCX 125.

I rode 950 kms on a PCX 125 last weeked (3 full days) in Spain with a couple of friends on Vespas (actually, one blew up his and ended up on a GS 1200, cheater). Nice bike, consumes very little (steep rise if you you pass 80 km/h on the clock), more than enough.

I felt kind of sitting in the toilet the whole day, hey that was fun as well. Wish you'll have plenty, that's the way to go!

Esteban

Thanks Esteban, was the toilet sitting well for those 950 km's?
My journey is for the most part through Spain. Coming in Spain south of Biarritz and then I'm not sure if I should go down in a fairly straight line or take the west part through the Picos, a piece of Portugal and Sevilla. Going all the way down to Tarifa/Gibraltar and going up on the east side of Spain (Sierra Nevada, Barcelona). My real goal is Finestrat near Benidorm because that's where the ashes of my parents is buried.