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Originally Posted by JSH
There is an interesting book call "Old Man on a Bike" about a many in his 70s that decided to buy a Honda Cargo 125 "Pizza Bike" in Mexico and ride it to the bottom of South America. The follow up book is "Old Men Can't Wait" about him riding a different small back north.
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Not sure if those books were ever translated to Portuguese or available here
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The author very correctly decided that a small bike that is sold all over the region he was going to be riding would be: cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, easier to handle at his age, and able to be repaired by any mechanic he could find.
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That was a very good point.
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A very different perspective than most long distance riders from Europe that bring a big foreign bike and then have to have every little thing like even tires or tubes special ordered and shipped in for their journey.
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Even some locals often get larger motorcycles for their road trips, yet at one moment or another there will be someone on a CG 125 coming to the rescue.