Me and my partner will do our rtw trip next year. We will skip the hardest countries, like Africa and South America, so we will only do Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, South Korea, China, into Kyrgyzstan and from there back to Europe again. We would like to drive as much gravel as possible but nothing extreme. But we also want to drive comfortable on highway when we feel for it.

We argued back and forth for half an year which bike we should buy since we wanted same bike but my partner is 188 cm and I'm 164 so he wanted a big bike and I wanted a smaller. But we actually bought for three weeks ago two BMW 850gs, he got the adventure version.

It seems most people like smaller bikes, but since we won't do any hardcore off road tracks we feel it is a bit overkill for us and my partner think it is uncomfortable to drive those for longer period of time (but without actually have tried it). I also have 650gs, I feel safe on it and can plant both feet flat on both sides but there are a lot of vibrations and not so much power so I don't find it to be so comfortable or so fun driving. But we are both beginners, we only got our licence last year so we have only done like two days trips so I wouldn't be chocked if we do regret the decision. But we are not hardcore adventurers so I think it can't be too bad, in worst case we can always choose roads that are more suitable for us. But I did try to convince him for 750gs or Triumph Tiger 900 rally pro first while he wanted 1250gs so we found a compromise.