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Good post! I am actually pretty experienced in long road trips in the car, separate trips in Central Europe, Balkans and North America and like you say, solving the issues that arise is actually part of the fun. Obviously this "risk" is more pronounced on two wheels, im not equating the two.
Leaving Scotland 20th of April so while still a bit chilly hopefully not too bad. To my mind I have a streamlined kit, just under 15kg (ive lost 10kg of my own weight thankfully) for full camp set up et al. Bike at 11.5kg albeit minus 2 kg of full bottles.
On the question of the thread, I have already replaced the CK Hubs with Hope and feel better for it.
I may be in touch mate, thanks for the offer.
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I have been in your situation so completely understand your worries. My longest trip ended up being only 1 month but I have done various trips over the years.
What I learn when touring is that you cannot really plan for much, say you have spare parts with you but not the one that fails. I think it is unlikely your hubs will fail and wouldn’t worry about it. If it does, you will find a solution, especially if you are not under time pressure.
I would go as light as possible (not easy when starting in beginning of March) and adapt you setup on the way. You will get more experienced while you travel. There are shops (Decathlon) on the way to Albania so you will have plenty of time and resources to adapt before you hit more challenging countries.
I have done the Balkans in March 2016. PM me if you like to chat about it.