I have been watching a young couple lavi and olli riding around the world on a Suzuki 1050 v strom . I started off with great interest to see how the bike would cope. However I have grow more and more disgusted at how the pair have treated the bike that was loaned to them by a dealer down south, not only have they ignored most of the service intervals , put the lowest grade fuel in it even when it was the cheapest they had come across, massively overloaded the bike to the point were the spokes are breaking and there now on there third rear shock ..but..worst of all he has no mechanical knowledge what so ever . You would think that if you were going around the world on a bike you would take a course on the workings of it (he didn't even know how to adjust the rear suspension and its only a knob on the side of the bike ? ). BUT. what it does show is what a terrific bike the v strom is to do thousands of miles under terrible conditions with hardly any maintenance, that is the real hero of there trip .
