http://www.thepostman.org.uk/the-bike/

First line about a "big market in the states" for a bike that was not sold there.

Kinda starts things off on the wrong foot for me

35,000 km is about what I do on my wave a year.

100,000 km total if you add up the KM from all my rides.

Thailand does have a group or riders that cerconvent the globe, some times several times. Those are the real hard core riders

I spent a long time reading his story in real time on ADV rider... so well written and so amusing that it is worth the hours it takes. It makes the hollywood boys look like primadonnas and shows that you don't need the big budget or the big bike to do something like this...

First line about a "big market in the states" for a bike that was not sold there.

Kinda starts things off on the wrong foot for me

Really, A quick google search tells me that the CT110 was sold in the USA.

The CT110 was sold in the US but it was sold as a trail bike rather than a postal bike.