There will always be horror stories about a particular bike, I took my 1200GS and my 1200GSA both past 90,000 km with no major problems. London to Cape Town and back is less than 40,000 km.
I rode both the 1200GS and GSA in Africa, my preference would be the lighter 1200GS. It has to be said that once you get away from the motorways of Europe and North America there's no real need for more than 700cc, even two up.
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