It was a bit of a clanger for a first post... Thanks for not hitting me over the head! I did want to make it clear to someone thinking about this as a nice reliable "Honda" that it's not a normal honda. You can't expect one with 25 000 k on it to behave like say a CBR1000 that has 25 000 k on it (ie, work perfectly and behave like a bran new bike). I've been following Postie Notes and I think I get it. I think JFK's speech writer summed it up the best. "Not because they are easy, but because they are hard". If you set off to go around Australia, or Sydney to London on a postie, you're doing it *because* it's hard. That's an *admirable* goal. Having ridden a postie for 4 hours a day for 2 years over every imaginable surface (from a motorcross track to a 6 lane highway) in every kind of weather, even an earthquake, but never leaving my own postcode, I have a very clear idea of the challenge you've set yourself. I don't think that ATWR, the first poster, had any idea of what a postie is really like.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too"

I love that quote (I might steal it and use it on the blog)... my own bastardised version is:
"any numpty can cross the Nullabor on a 1000cc machine - there's no challenge in that".

__________________
Postie Notes - "you're not seriously going around Australia on a postie bike??"

I think they're a fine travelling choice.
A few years ago, I rode around 15000ks in a year. Mostly with cooking, camping gear etc on board and plenty of off road. Also did around 900k one day at around 65km/h! However, compared to other postie riders, I'm a blouse. Folks have ridden them across Aus, in less than 2 weeks (Byron to Steep Point).

Also, regarding longevity, mine had around 45k on it when it was moved on, and even after having an engine full of water, still ran great. Plenty of others with higher mileage.

C90s in the UK are pretty close; that would be easier and cheaper.