A comfortable 120kmh in Europe, then good on dirt....hmmm... we would all like one of those.
It is all about compromise I am afraid. If you want your comfortable 120kmh then you'll be needing more than one cylinder, and that puts the weight up.
But you are not going to be needing the speed outside Europe. So why not accept that things will be slow here (if you can call 100kmh slow, a bizarre notion)? No hurry. Poland to north Africa is only a few days - a week? - and your prospective trip is months. So get something that'll be good for asia and africa - the bulk of your trip.
I would say a 650 single would be your biggest option and a 250 your smallest. Everything in between would do just fine as well. I would point you in the direction of the XT250 as an option.
2008 Yamaha XT250
Forget about your days in Europe and concentrate on what's best for the asian and African months.
You say you are new to biking - "I'm not experienced" - all the more reason to get something smaller rather than larger.
If I am not mistaken there was a Polish guy who set off a couple of years back on a similar route with an XT250 and made a video - anyone know the link?
Simon
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Simon Kennedy
Around the world 2000-2004, on a 1993 Honda Transalp
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