Holland to Mongolia; 18.000km, 15 countries, one '62 Vespa, one car.

You will not bore us- you have captivated us
facebook sucks - I will follow your progress here.

I agree "facebook sucks". I will follow along here. Good luck to you.

I was wondering if you had read his book. He is my hero and gave me a lot of insights into long distance riding when I was a youngster. I met him once and he was as kind and helpful in person as he was on the page. A great shame he, like the rest of us, had to die.

PS add me to the ranks of Riders Who Hate Facebook.

I'm guessing the canyon between Kabul and Jalalabad. I drove it back in the good old days (1973) in a VW van.

waiting for more.

Its 4 am in the Netherlands...

I didn't mean waiting impatiently :)
Tomorrow or even next week would fine.

relax, he is still building his scoot
and it is 10:28 PM by now and snowing

I'm in. This will be interesting no matter how it turns out.

Just drop by. And the beer is yours.

CHeers.

So it has been a while and some things have changed here. Anyways the preparations on the Vespa are pretty much all finished. Besides, last week we bought ourselves a car. The car will be a Lada Niva!

Here are some pictures.

The engine has been revised:



And the vespa was put back together again:







And now I am testing and running it in. I did 750km already and it is running and driving just fine!







And a picture of our magnificent car!



In the meantime we are busy with the visums and other preparations. Only 7 weeks left!

Nice, would be lovely to drop by! :)

Thanks! Show us your lambretta! :)

Unfortunately I haven't read it... I absolutely love old stories of people doing round the world trips.

It is somewhere in India. There was a dude who did quite a long trip through the himalaya.

I am not doing everything in the old way and thus I did mount a navigation:



Last week I mounted some racks in order to get my stuff along. I will post pictures soon.

Here some pictures for people who love engine rebuilds. I took the engine apart, replaced all the bearings, replaced the crankshaft, replaced the clutch plates, replaced cilinder and piston etcetera etcetera. I only used original piaggio parts.















The engine is running very well and has a very good fuel consumption, about 1l on 30km. :) It is also very smooth and runs quite easily 100km/hour.

Can a mod adjust the title and replace one car for one Lada?

We made the news this week:



http://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/18-03-2013/wereldreis-op-vespa-en-met-oude-lada

At the start of our trip we will be filmed by Dutch national news.