I'm planning a cross country trip on a BMW F650GS, has anyone else done a very long...

...ride on this bike? I've been riding for about 3 years now. I've had mostly street legal dirt bikes. My fist bike was a 2007 KLX250 that I put almost 12000 miles on in one year. I moved up to a KLX 400 w/ a big bore 440 kit. Tons of fun in the woods. Then I got a 2003 KTM 200 exc. All were street legal and plated but I never did more then 50 or 60 miles a day. (Except for the KLX 250, I rode that thing all day every day everywhere around town, just not on the highways)

I'm looking to buy a BMW F650GS to take me across country through back roads, dirt trails, highways, campsites and whatever else I may encounter. I know for sure I wouldn't take the KLX 440... too light, no wind screen, vibrates like all hell, and its hard to pack gear on.

Thoughts? Ideas? Previous Trip experiences?

Thanks!

You want the motorcycle section, this is for bicycles.

You want the motorcycle section, this is for bicycles.