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Only half way through Amazon's labyrinthine publishing system with it yet but it's the story of my Elephant rally trip this year on my 70's Suzuki Bloop. I'm not rushing as I don't expect anyone to buy it but I just wanted to see how the system works for when I try to get another (nothing to do with biking) book that I wrote last year through it.

There's a 1/3 page article about the trip in this month's Classic Mechanics mag if you happen to be passing Smiths.
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Just because we haven't had any pictures yet, here's my Derbi Terra Adventure on a recent trip to France.

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ah erotic fiction!
i see sounds exiting (the noob googles elephant rally ). That's a real nice bike im thinking of buying one reliable ?
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jeez i got as far as German winter rally kudos to you and i hope you still have all your fingers
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Just to make your bike look even better Alex, here's a picture of mine -

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I believe one of the chonda challenge boys only has a cbt , hope it is valid in mongolia . More and more people are using small capacity bikes , it does make sense , you can go further on the same amount of fuel , pick them up on your own , they are easy to take off road , smaller cost if you have to crate for shipping , you can load the little beggers onto a canoe if you have too , down side people think is speed but who wants to rush past everything surely you are out there to enjoy it . If you have less time and need to travel fast , fly, and hire a small bike which of course will be less to hire.

Now where did i put that GS1300 adv brochure ....... ( need to light fire lol)
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Loch Lubnaig last year i love that place.
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