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Long trip around South America and New Zealand

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South America and New Zealand on 2 XT600E’s

 

 

 

The following is the diary of a year long trip around South America and New Zealand on 2 XT600E’s called Elliot and Bog. Our previous trip lasted 8 months 2 up on a 2 year old Triumph Sprint in 1996.

On that trip we travelled from Durban in South Africa through Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Israel and back through Europe.

We decided to take a bike each this time and do more adventurous routes.

 We equipped the XT’s with 40 litre fuel tanks, oil coolers & tool boxes on the bash plates and heavy duty rear wheels.

We thought we’d covered all options…….

Lufthansa had lost our Carnet and took four days to send it to us, blaming a George Bush visit for the delay! We struggled to understand that one and took the storage excess on the chin.
Carnets were actually not needed after that until New Zealand. Considering their cost it makes you want to spit really!
Eventually we took directions from the guys in customs (who had have never seen the same map as ours) and  they were probably smirking as we left very overloaded and in a rush. Elliot promptly ran out of fuel. The tanks had been too thoroughly drained before crating and we ended up shuffling fuel from one to another and limping to the fuel station.

 
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Nick Sanders rides with Metal Mule

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Nick sanders

Nick has been riding motorbikes since he was 16 years old. Since 1992 when he first rode around the world on an Indian Enfield 500cc 'Bullet' he has been riding professionally ever since.
Nick has motorcycled around the world 6 times making him, probably, the most experienced extreme motorcycle adventurer in the world. His journeys include 2 speed circumnavigations, his latest in 19 days 3 hours in 2005.


His expeditions culminated in an historic re-capture of his solo circumnavigation by motorcycle on a Yamaha R1 in 19 days. Over the past 7 years he has motorcycled around the world 4 times, on three occasions riding over 30 000 miles. On the second of these adventures he led a group of 22 riders across 17 countries and 5 continents.

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Damon I’Anson Rides with Metal Mule

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Damon I’Anson has been working with bikes for over 20 years, as despatch rider, mechanic, track-based riding instructor and, for the past decade, a motorcycle journalist. Damon’s career in journalism began on RiDE magazine, where he became deputy editor, before moving to the editorship of Performance Bikes magazine in 1999. After two years at PB, he left to pursue a freelance career.


Last year (2005) Damon arrived in Delhi, hired a 150cc indigenous motorcycle and went for a 10,000-mile ride. This trip, extending from the Himalaya to the southern tip of India, was serialised in Bike Magazine over 11 installments. It was during this venture that Damon hatched the plot to travel overland to the mountains...
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