Im at the end of China near the Khorgas border with Kazakhstan with about 13000km total on the bike. So far on the trip I have no actual major issues to report. The chain is shot and my replacement is too short, some more bolts have fallen out and a pretty lengthily period of rain caused some water damage in the ignition switch but that was easily fixed.

I decided today to test my tank range. I had expected to get maybe 300km out of it, my previous record was 292 but I ended the day with 413km on the trip meter. I ran out of time in the day before I ran out of gas. I'm going to do this again just in case I forgot to reset the trip meter last time.

I took the bike to about 3000m above sea level for a few days and there was a noticeable drop in power from a top speed (loaded) of 120kmh at about 1000m to 80-90kmh. I often found the engine couldn't handle 6th gear at that altitude.

So far so good. Once I replace the chain I should be in good shape.