Welcome back! While COVID-19 rages outside, we can finish building up this bike in the comfort of the garage.

I chose not to have a centre stand, mainly for weight reasons, but I fitted a Side Stand Enlarger — from the good folk at Wunderlich in Germany, of course. It doesn’t interfere with deploying the side stand; in fact, it makes it easier.

安全是一个考虑因素，尽管我倾向于信任的人。毕竟，它更容易相信他们，当你不暴露他们的诱惑。自行车，作为“烹饪”的版本，不具备无钥匙点火。我喜欢，出于安全考虑，即使它确实意味着我必须携带的关键。我必须携带一对夫妇为在背篓上的锁，无论如何，所以这没什么大不了的。裙撑锁，顺便说一下，有橡胶盖保护他们免受灰尘和湿气，这是值得欢迎的确实。

Most of my other security comes from a set of cables which I use to lock the bike to some fixed point and my helmet and the tail bag to the bike. I have considered a lock that sounds an alarm, but we all know how effective car alarms are.

为了保护自行车的下降的情况下，我选择了德奇的发动机和水箱护杠。正如你在照片上看到，他们都比较低调，但仍然看起来好像他们会处理任何事情，你可能会引发他们 - 可以这么说。散热器护不言而喻。那么，为什么我说吗？因为你真的不想忘记它。散热器是可笑容易损坏，尤其是在冒险自行车，他们共苦来维修或更换。新利18苹果

Further back, I’ve gone for Wunderlich’s new protective cover set for the clutch and alternator covers. These covers are designed so that mechanical stresses and contact thumps are distributed evenly over the component. There is also a moulded elastomer element made of silicone fitted to the inside to provide additional dampening.

在一个特定的情况下，我肯定是过度设计这辆车。这是与德奇Doubleshock保护。为什么我会适应这些？毕竟，我已经得到了发动机保护杆。那么，在前轮单位的情况下，他们没有被通过后，酒吧尤其看着自行车的一部分照顾。在发动机保护的情况下，他们是一个备份，如果我崩溃够硬，使发动机的酒吧是不够的。极不可能的，但你去那里。我一直是皮带和牙套样的家伙的。不是真的。

我有装修Barkbusters我的自行车的长记录;甚至我的杜卡迪扰了他们。所以很自然的这种自行车必须有他们。Barkbusters保护您的双手从寒冷和有各种各样的事情，从滴手杆碰撞。他们是一个出色制作精良澳大利亚的产品，我无法想象放在一起冒险自行车没有他们。新利18苹果

为了保护，Barkbusters后最明显的项目通常是bash的板。考虑到用石头能做到那里，这只是常识造成什么损害接触。德奇的铝板看起来好像用自行车来了;我选择了黑色之一，你很难知道它在那里 - 直到崩溃的自行车倒在战略上被安置的岩石和不粉碎头或分割的情况。我加了一个保护灯和一组阿顿LED灯带保护和格栅。

Among distance riders there tends to be a feeling that you can do things cheaply, or at least more cheaply than the farkles from the major suppliers. Many people look at the equipment I used on my 1978/79 rtw bike and think that because I got friends to make bits or my co-traveller Charlie and I made bits ourselves, that’s the way to go – and it’s cheap. To some extent that’s correct; our equipment was relatively cheap, and none of it let us down, even when we crashed quite enthusiastically in Malaysia.

You’re free to do the same thing. But – first, enthusiastic help is all very well; it may, however, not be professional standard. Second, bikes today are far less tolerant where home-made accessories are concerned. Third, you don’t have to make it yourself, you can buy this stuff! You don’t have to screw around like we had to. It ain’t cheap, but it’s terrific quality and it’s been tested. When Charlie and I built our XL250s, you couldn’t buy anything remotely like this.

There is one thing I find less than ideal on the F 750 GS, and any adventure bikes. Their design is often thoroughly integrated, and that means you can’t just pop a bigger fuel tank on, the way we could with the plastic Acerbis tanks on the XLs. Even the F 850 GS Adventure’s tank won’t fit on the 750. This bike’s range is not too bad even as it is, but you can never have too much fuel. Well, unless you’re planning on falling over, I guess.

除此之外，我很高兴这几天能够打开一个目录，记下一些部件号和顺序位。我没有去通过所有的麻烦了。并考虑这一点 - 你将要使用这个东西了，起码，数月。可能是几年。得到它在一开始吧，你不会后悔。

但是，嘿 - 如果你想省钱，想尽一切办法自己做。我绝不会做那你泄气。它可以是一个很大的乐趣，太。但是，做正确！

Come to think of it, I met a brother and sister in Pakistan who had set out from Paris on Mobylettes with no preparation whatever. Their luggage when I met them consisted of camel saddlebags which they’d scored along the way. From what I could work out, they had had a terrific time.

It ain’t what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it.

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