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@Black_Rainbow_Project
Fair play to you that you're planning this ride of yours in south America or wherever...but until you've done it, even you don't know how well the equipment you have is going to work for you or anybody else.
I know you love bikes, but you seem to spend more time convincing yourself that you need another specific bike to do a specific thing, and then buying all these specific components that you never actually seem to go on any long rides to test them out properly.
Why don't you settle on one bike for a while and one set up and give it a good amount of time on some actual tours so that you can give some proper, real world experience based opinions on how good or bad they are?
As i said, i'm not meaning any offence, but there are times on here where it's like the deaf leading the blind
...and i know you have a sense of humour so will know i mean that tongue in cheek. :]
Pretty much every bike you've put together in the past year would be perfectly fine for doing some touring on...so why not do some?
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that there are people that have toured all over the world on some of the shonkiest equipment around, and they would put us all to shame with their achievements....they don't worry about whether they have the right this, or the perfect that...They use what they have and enjoy the riding part of....if something breaks, they fix it...if something is no good, they don't use it again.
There comes a time where you need to stop worrying about every single little detail and just go out there and ride and enjoy yourself and gain your own experience.
Nine times out of ten when you tell people they should 'sell this bike' and 'buy that bike instead' and 'change to this handlebar' and 'use a barbag'...they would probably do just fine with what they have...and would be able to spend the money on having fun in all the places they could ride to.
Whatever happened to 'It's all about the ride' ?
Lecture over. :]