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    Spot the location!

    Ok, ok, I was on my way from Laos to Vietnam, so no internet till now......and there is the time difference!!! :D Yes, it is Laos, and the bike is a Honda Sonic (they are made in Thailand, basically a cbr125) , which I adapted for off road. You will not believe where it went and what the...
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    Spot the location!

    Changes done and dusted, thanks everyone for making this such a cool game. Now to take some liberties as the author,  can anyone say where this is?
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    Spot the location!

    Better?
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    BMW 1150 GS - I MUST make the first gear shorter! Please help

    Thanks Obi, I found this post https://www.advrider.com/Bikes/GSgearing.html which sounds promising, I will need to read it again with a glass of wine and a packet of peanuts and a technical dictionary. Scribble might also be interested, and the granny in the Morris
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    Pictures that makes you wanna ride !

    Get out there.............far out there........
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    Spot the location!

    .....although to be fair, this is closer to home, during my leave in South Africa a few weeks ago......
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    Spot the location!

    Hey! Just poped in to say hi, I started this post a year or so ago, and so its great to see it going so well! Little did I know that I would be in South East Asia a few months later, but I am still on two wheels here.
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    BMW 1150 GS - I MUST make the first gear shorter! Please help

    Dear dogs, Ok, just come back from Sani pass and Lesotho via Biviaanskloof (which by the way has been upgraded and repaired and tamed!), Naude's nek, Zuurplaat etc, etc,  and I always knew it, but now I just have to shorten that damn first gear! I dont care about loosing some top end if thats...
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    Spot the location!

    Hi Guys! .....yes I got the first post in then that was me done! Now I am in South east Asia (Laos).............I bet if posted some locations from here I could claim the game back.... permanently  8) Am using a Yamaha DT 175 up here....or is it a 125, anyway,  oh and sometimes a Honda Bajaj 250...
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    Shipping a bike to another country

    Thanks for all the info so far, will need to give it all some thought.....maybe a Chinese special will cope better with the mud anyway :) 
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    Shipping a bike to another country

    Thanks a lot Iron Shark, I will do so.
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    Shipping a bike to another country

    Hi all, I will be going over to South East Asia (Laos) for a period of about two years, and I was wondering if anyone knows the viability (cost, effort etc) of taking my GS over? Thanks,any info will be very helpful.
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    Pictures that makes you wanna ride !

    Yeah, Cedeberg is cool
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    Pictures that makes you wanna ride !

    The Panzer division......, load up, get on, and get out...and don't come back till you need new tyres!! ....."Yes dear".
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