ROUND THE WORLD AGAIN, Part 2

HAVING PROMISED to build a round-the-world (rtw) bike, I fortunately did not have to look far to find the platform. A BMW F 750 GS suggested itself both because I like it – not least because it is relatively light -- but also because I was pretty sure I’d be able to get the bits for it that I would want in order to turn it into my kind of long-distance machine. I arranged with BMW Motorrad to buy one of the cooking version bikes – they are more affordable at AU$15,385 than the up-specced F 750 GS Tour, the F 850 GS or GS Adventure.

Sure, I would quite have liked some of the electronics and other goodies on the more fully specified bikes, but there were also some things I didn’t want, like the keyless starting (thieves) and the automatic shifter. And saving a few bucks early