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sorry all i havent blogged for a while couldnt find a internet we are in Omsk siberia about 7000ks from Moscow but its all bitumen rds now just have to dodge the traffic and the trucks
Much has happened after we left Khovd in Mongolia had a nice mornings riding up through some high mountains passes which were beautiful but quite cold and snow covered mountains all around.The kawasaki develops a radiator leak[i know peter van linden said the radiator was the achilles heel off the bike],,then the road turned to a rock garden for 120ks corrugated could just bounce along at 20km per hour in 2nd gear ,,i hit the wall if i could have got out of there somehow i would have given the bloody bike to the closest mongolian, we limped into Olgi in the middle of a dust storm more s*** ,,,found a nice gert to stay in for $8 each and fixed the radiator with cold weld and its been fantastic ever since
Went out to lovely turkish rest with Billy and Mark 2 american guys from Arizina who were trying to buy chinese bikes to do what we had done [chines 250cc bikes over here are $700us. Mark and billy are coming to visit me one day,,,they told me about www.couchsurfing.com check it out
Funny how things are better in the morning had a great ride to Tashanti at the russian border lovely flowing sandy tracks ,,great motorcycling ,took 4 hrs to get back into Russia even though we are the only ones there .Another biker Zev i will call him turned up on an old Africa Twin which he rides the freckle off,,,,he helped us with the border bulls*** so we rode with him and camped for 3 nites through the Russia Alti Mts which are really spectacular.Lovely camping clean fast flowing rivers,,Zev is a fisherman so we always stopped beside lovely rivers and had campfires etc although he never caught any fish
The 4th nite in the Alti we went to a bikers camp in the forest huge band ruskie music all nite lots of beers everyone wanted to meet us so made many freinds that nite
Rode to barnaul the next day[Barnaul is where Ewan and Charlie went to the disco] what a contrast to Mongolia a nice modern city with lovely cafes and shops,,got my haircut as i was looking a bit bushy,,and zev and i went to the bikers bar that nite ,,he pissed me off here as i was expected to pay for everything beers food taxi,,,off to Nobasibisk the next day crappy riding hot trucks crowded roads i was not happy and said to mike lets put the bikes on the train to Moscow
Got new tyres here did 12000k on the old Maxxis but they were pretty bad met Max here great guys drives a z4 beemer helped us heaps,,max is coming to oz to go diving with me
Split with Zev the next morning as he could see we were no longer going to pay for him,,he had helped us with hotels and cafes etc but enough is enough,,,,rainy morning ride [glad for the new tyres] but then it fined up all the way to Omsk so all is good again
We have to ride about 2500ks across the siberian plains no hills flat as the Hay plains only much greener and wet and boggy [wouldnt want to fall asleep and run off the road here eh j.r.
The next mts are the Russian Urals near yerketterinburg where we will camp again for 3 or 4days
Booked in to a classy hotel in Omsk its a nice place found a nice bakery and maybe an Irish pub 2nite life is ok again
love to all been away nearly 8 weeks have settled in too life on the road but im looking fwd to seeing everyone back home soon xxoo
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