Forum: Ride reports
11-09-2010, 11:53 AM
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Forum: Ride reports
11-09-2010, 03:13 AM
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Very nice....
It's look like a very nice trip you had. I am planning a similar trip this year. Do you think it's possible to go further out on Kola and then a boat over to the Arkhangelsk side?
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Forum: Ride reports
11-08-2010, 03:04 AM
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We want more...
Looks like a nice trip. very good photo's. I will follow this one.
If you have time you can also look at my trip in 2007. Vladivostok to Norway.
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Forum: Ride reports
11-05-2010, 10:29 AM
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Nice trip....
Where nice Photo's. I did not see so many girls when I visit Iron Tigers MC i Vladivostok 2007... looking forward to a trip to Russia again next year.
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Forum: Ride reports
02-17-2010, 11:33 AM
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Forum: Ride reports
02-17-2010, 09:45 AM
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Motorcycle safari. South-Africa 2010.
Limpopo, South-Africa mc safari 2010
25 February are we going from the cold winter to South-Africa on a "motorcycle safari". We will drive motorcycle, enjoy the weather, and see what this part of...
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Forum: Ride reports
03-12-2009, 11:27 AM
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Forum: Ride reports
11-14-2008, 02:50 AM
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Forum: Ride reports
11-13-2008, 01:37 PM
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Soon home.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/P8140182.jpg
On the ferry between Finland and Sweden.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/273Btreisehjem1.jpg
Only 200...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-13-2008, 01:08 PM
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St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is my favorite Russian city.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/446px-Savior_on_blood_from_canal.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
11-13-2008, 08:27 AM
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Lunch
We had some "small goals" that we should do along the way. One was to eat fish from Lake Baikal. Omul is a fish only located in Lake Baikal.
Her we are hungry and waiting....
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Forum: Ride reports
11-13-2008, 06:13 AM
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On the road.
Here you can see mc.globetrotter in action. Yes we had a god time Knut.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/IMG_0411.jpg
In a few year I thing it will not be the same driving...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-12-2008, 03:24 AM
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Thank you.
A very, very good ride report. I will soon take a trip and drive my motorcycle in the US and Canada.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
Vidar, Norway
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Forum: Ride reports
11-12-2008, 03:11 AM
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Going to Vladivostok
Every year, I thing in the middle of august it's a big motorcycle show in Vladivostok. This 2 was going there.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/122Mtemedrussmc.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
11-12-2008, 03:06 AM
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Not only we had a good time.
This is a man from Japan we meet close to Novosibirsk. He drove alone. He had been all over. He should now go in to Mongolia an maybe from there up to Yakutsk.
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Forum: Ride reports
11-12-2008, 02:43 AM
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Pit stop
In Ryazan we had a "pit stop". appr. 8000 km so fare. Had to change oil and filters ++.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/249Ryazan4.jpg
Also had som good help cleaning the...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-12-2008, 02:07 AM
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Ryazan
Ryazan Oblast. About 250 km. south east of Moscow
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/245Ryazan1.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 01:41 PM
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Friends
We had to stop 5 minutes after filling som gas just outside the city Nizhny Novgorod. Close by where we stopped in was a motorcycle club. They came running over the street and asked if we was hungry...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 01:33 PM
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River Volga
The river Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length and watershed. It flows through the western part of Russia and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia.
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 12:53 PM
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Girls and dinner.
Russian girls......
Here we have dinner with 2 nice looking Russian girls.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/250Ryazan5.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 12:48 PM
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5 minutes
Where can we sleep???
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/1105min.jpg
A big Lenin statue. This one located in Chita.
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 12:17 PM
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Bmw
Russians also have nice motorcycles.
Here's a russian friend with his new BMW.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/252Ryazan6.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 11:45 AM
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Irbit
In Ural Mountains the city Irbit is located. Everybody interested in Ural motorcycle know what that means.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/191Irbit1.jpg
The Ural motorcycle...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 11:31 AM
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Hello
My Russian is not so very good, but I...
Hello
My Russian is not so very good, but I can survive in Russia.
If you plan to go to Russia I think it's a good idea to learn the alphabet, read a little and speak a little. Don't bother so...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 11:08 AM
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Shopping
When you travel with a motorcycle you don't have room for a lot off stuff if you like to shop. Here is one of the few things that we bought.
(Not I, they did not have Triumph)
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 11:04 AM
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Gas station
One day we stop to fill gas a Russian car, Lada was filling on the other side of the pump. Suddenly he startet to drive, but the problem was that he forgot to take the fuel hose out of his car. Here...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 10:58 AM
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Washing clothes
You can use the Tiger to different things.....
In the back of the Triumph you can see a Russian sauna.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/101RussBadstue.jpg
Many beautiful...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 10:51 AM
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Nature
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/finnatur.jpg
A small city east of Ural Mountains
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/217FraUralogvestover.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 10:44 AM
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Another problem to solve.
Here one of the bikes have a flat tire. 2 nails. This happend only 200 meter from a tyre repair shop ?????? Accidental??
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/118Verner1punktering.jpg...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 10:03 AM
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Police
We had no big problem with the police........
Only a small problem. One us had to stop for the police and show the documements. The problem was he could not find the original documents to his bike....
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 05:40 AM
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 05:20 AM
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Radiator problems.
My radiator brooke down in the middle of Siberia.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/184Triumphrep1.jpg
When you don't have the normally stuff to clean with only the...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 04:59 AM
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Driving in Russia
We had garmin world map on the GPS and used that together with a road map. It worked out good. It's not a problem to drive, but some citiy's are very big and the traffic is bad. If the road have 3...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 03:23 AM
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Baikal
Maybee someone does not know anything about lake Baikal, but Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, holding approximately twenty percent...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 03:16 AM
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Contrast
Some city's in russia are very beautiful. (My favorite St.Petersburg), but the contrast is big.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/158Hus.jpg
On the way it's no problem to...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 03:04 AM
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Gas station
This "young lady" and here husband was also interested in us.
Where are you from and where are you going is something it's good to learn in russian. Nice bike...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 03:00 AM
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Friendly people
We meet only friendly people on our trip.
We could feel that east of Ural mountans the people had more time and was more interested in us. Maybee the reason for that was that not so many travel...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 02:51 AM
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 02:49 AM
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Russian navy
When we was in Vladivostok it was a big Navy parade. A lot of ships and submarine.
Here you can see some military ships. Photo taken from the hotel.
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Forum: Ride reports
11-11-2008, 02:41 AM
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Highways
The russian "highways" is not always in good shape.
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/vbjornli/116Vidarpvei.jpg
Here is another place
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