Overlanders' Handbook | A Route and Planning Guide • Car • 4×4 • Van • Truck
Sahara Overland | Travel • History • Books • Tours • Morocco Overland • Trans Morocco Trail
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My current 300L came with Acerbis handguards so I’ve decided to recycle my trusty old Aussie-made Barkbuster Storms (see ebayuk). Looking back, I realise what a great life of adventure they’ve enjoyed! Proper handguards based around a metal frame clamped to the handlebar are a no brainer. A simple fall over can snap a lever badly. That’s never happened to me since I’ve been busting the bark.
I bought mine in 2008 for my near-new Yamaha XT660Z to research the first edition of my Morocco Overland guidebook. Turned out I needed them too when I look a piste too far up on Jebel Saro (right). The 660Z was also the first bike with which I experimented with DIY tubeless tyre spoked rim sealing. I’ve got better at it since . And my first bike with efi . What a miracle that was on a big single; smooth running at low rpm and over 80mpg possible. Where possible, I’d never go back to a carb bike.
Next bike was another near-new CRF250L I bought in Arizona. Over the years and right up to my current 300L , I’ve profited regularly from previous from-new owners’ selling bikes with barely four figures on the clock and at a massive depreciation. The L led me on a fabulous clockwise lap of Southwest USA through northern California, across Nevada, into amazing Utah and back down into AZ via the ‘do-it-before-you-die’ White Rim Trail . Road and/or trail, SWUSA like being in your own road movie, a trip every r
Overlanders' Handbook | A Route and Planning Guide • Car • 4×4 • Van • Truck
Sahara Overland | Travel • History • Books • Tours • Morocco Overland • Trans Morocco Trail