Hi All,
I've been riding Rocinante for 25 years. She's a Europe spec 1989 K75RT.

https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOVZhBJ3gcx8sLx8LGkqTspPQMiU9_7NNCqk4rk

Longest trip was when I bought her in Germany in 1996, went 7,000 km through Scandinavia and then down to the Alps before shipping home. Now I also have an F650 but my true love is this one!

I try to do all my own maintenance and have learned a lot from the folks over on Motobrick which seems now to be no longer in existence. I've lurked here before but now signed up. Now all I need to figure out is how to post photos directly here.

 You need five posts before you can put up pics. It's a bot-beating exercise.

Dai wrote: You need five posts before you can put up pics. It's a bot-beating exercise.

Ha! I've been caught out as a bot.

I did a similar trip about five years before you without the Scandinavian bit as I ran out of time.  

I'm guessing those 7,000km took you about a week as it sure is easy to rack up the miles on these bikes with all the good roads in Europe.  

My baby's coming up for her thirtieth this year    I also have a F650GSD.  

Welkom.

Prime wrote:I try to do all my own maintenance and have learned a lot from the folks over on Motobrick which seems now to be no longer in existence.

Motobrick's absence was probably the result of a light-gravity episode in space-time of the Northern Lake Superior region. Its existence is still online right now.

Welcome! The Motobrick was getting a server swap and is now running on a twin turbo upgrade punched out to 440 cu.in.

Point-Seven-five wrote:Welcome!  The Motobrick was getting a server swap and is now running on a twin turbo upgrade punched out to 440 cu.in.

I'm only getting Error 404 Server Not Found

Anyway, my trip was Frankfurt -> Kiel ->ferry -> Gothenberg -> Oslo ->Stockhom -> around the Baltic Sea to -> Helsinki -> ferry -> Stockholm -> back down to Germany (there must have been another ferry there someplace) -> Nurnberg ->Munchen (where she was born) -> up into the Bavarian Alps, via Innsbruck then up into Switzerland and around the Lake of Konstance -> Freiburg - Frankfurt -> Hamburg where the built a shipping crate and put her on a boat and I picked her up in Toronto about three weeks later.

The trip took a leisurely month.

I realized that she'd do more than 200 km/hr! (with full fairing and all the luggage which is, apparently, verboten).