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5 minutes of interesting motorcycle riding

3 comments, 238 views, posted 10:03 pm 15/01/2012 in Travel by Edorph
Edorph has 1570 posts, 258 threads, 76 points
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This dude bought a 650 Dakar with 130.000km on it and rode alone from Vienna to Magadan.

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A few interesting moments there.. :-)

The full ride report is here, including lots of photos, more video and some pretty funny commentary:

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So here the story goes:

Then they asked me to follow. We drove about 10 minutes. We got out of town and were driving somewhere between trees. I thought "nice. 10 minutes abroad and I get raped by 3 guys, fucked in the ass and get robbed afterwords" (order may vary). Everybody told me - but I did not listen. I thought I knew it better than everybody else.

But suddenly we came to a Hotels which looked like a prison, but it actually was a hotel and I got a room for the night.

What a first day

pictures to follow ;-)

Extra Points Given by:

tricpe (5), Weedenski (5)

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10:13 pm 15/01/2012

tricpe

I'm sure you've seen "Long way round", featuring Ewan Mcgregor and Charlie Boorman, and their ride around the globe. I've seen that whole series (as well as the "Long way down"), and most of this video is from the road of bones...

10:17 pm 15/01/2012

Edorph

Yup, I've seen it several times :-) Definitely one of my favourite shows/documentaries. I hoping to do St. Petersburg - Murmansk - North Cape in one of the coming years. That'll be nothing like Road of Bones of course, but anything Russian is ridiculously tempting.

This guy's thread has lots of interesting information, and much of it is quite funny.

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Gas stations:
Here is an overall information about Gas stations throughout russia. Along the main Highway until Lake Baikal (and I guess also until Vladivostok) you will never have a problem finding Gas. I think there was a Gas station every 50km. Sometimes maybe 100km, but not more.

You always geht 92octane and sometimes even 95 octane along this route. Quality of the gas seems to vary a bit. At least Yuri told me that. The more expensive it is, the worse is the quality. :-)

How to act at a Gas station:
At a Gas station you first have to pay at the counter, then fill up Gas. The cashiers counter looks like that.

We are not used to that in Europe. I think it´s more common in the US (or at least was). Well, I had this huge touratech tank that holds (including the original tank) around 35 liters. So I went to the window, sait "trizet litr" which means 30 liters and wanted to pay.
But everytime they asked "trizet litr? a matazikl?" translates with: "you never geht 30 liters in that motorcycle, maybe you mean 13 liters." (i switch to english now, but imagine this all in russian.
Xdream: "no, no 30 liters for sure"
clerk: "no way 30 liters would fit in that motorcycle"
xdream: "ok, lets do 28"
clerk: "no"
xdream: "24"
clerk: "no"
xdream: "20"
clerk: "ok"
I paid and got gas.

After a few stops I figured out what "full" means. ("polny" in russian). So I got to the cashiers window again. Said "polny" and left a 1000 rubel and returned to the pump.
I had 3 tanks. Touratech left and right and the original tank under the seat. I needed to fill them all seperately. I filled the first, switched to the second - damn. The cashier locked the pump. Get back to the window.
Xdream "I need more gas"
clerk: "but you have already"
Xdream: "no, i need more"
clerk: "why"
xdream: "i have 3 tanks"
clerk: "how much you need"
xdream: "about 20 more liters"
clerk: "no way - in that motorcycle?"
further conversation, start at conversation A

10:33 pm 15/01/2012

djskitzy

guys... I've touched ewans bike from long way round.... with my own hands.....

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