biking in South America...any info out there?

Hi

Just looking for info on biking in South America...I might try to do the
whole continent in 3 months and would like to do it on a bike....would it be
better to buy one out there and then sell on? Rent? Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

Nicholas

 

www.horizonsunlimited.com

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Back issues of Bike. Dan Walsh. And the Motorcycle Diaries, I suppose.

 

Can't help you on the bike front, but you could have a look at Cynthia
Milton's yahoo list. She's in S America now, having gone 1/2 way round
the world first.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmmRTW/

 

Spoke to my son who's backpacked around parts of South America.
His main advice is "don't look rich" or you may become bandit
fodder. This was reflected in an article I read about a guy who
travelled the length of the SA-continent on an old Enfield
(Indian) Bullet that just about held together through the trip.
His philosophy was that nobody would want to steal a
manky-looking bike and if it broke down terminally he could just
dump it and carry on by other means, just like Che Guevara did.

riccip