Well, i made it there and back no problem. My GS ran like a champ, only made me pull out the tools once so i could tear apart the bike to jiggle the starter relay... i found out that i can make it from my place to three hundred feet short of the gas station in jasper... just over four hundred km on twenty six litres. I rode seven hundred km to rocky mtn. house on the first day, i got instant cred for that. I made eight hundred and fifty coming home in one shot. Made it into town with cords hanging out of the back tire, but made it nonetheless. Sitting in a logging truck for eight years was good training for that sort of thing. I saw LOTS of sweet bikes, met lots of cool folks. It was my first motorcycle adventure in thirty years and left me wanting more.
