Sibirsky Extreme 2012 - The Toughest Ride of Them All

Rod, you can't make this stuff up.
The last few posts have had me rolling. Looking back on this whole section of the trip I would imagine that the laughter and characters that you encountered must have been a pleasant way to forget about the ktm issues. The van ride was great fun to read, and victor.. no more needs to be said.

This is epic. Keep us laughing please.

Sorry I missed this ...

No we were not. (In general). Prutser I think had a big map of Kazakhstan and another of Mongolia. It was something for evening curiosity ... to see where we were ion the big picture once we had reached a town or a road. Obviously 90% of the trails we were on are not going to be on a fold out national map.

Cant believe it.... all others had KAZAHKPETROLSHIT too and didnt suffer.... I am really curious

We left Petropavlovskoe after breakfast in our rooms (chocolate bars, fruit juice and crisps purchased the evening before) and made our way up into the hills.

It was dry when we left Petropavlovskoe ... but rain fired up soon after ... This was an annoyance for Prutser and Beamster who had high fenders on their bikes. The mud spray from the front wheel was covering them, their visors and their headlights. Terry and I who were running low fenders, had no such problems.







We were moving into proper Altai country now. The Altai are a Turkic people closely related to the Mongolians. They have a similar horseback lifestyle, but being mountain dwellers rather than plains dwellers, their yurts are permanent, rather than portable. With the resources of the forest, they build wooden octagonal yurt like buildings.

Its a beautiful part of the world:

Absolutely Beautiful! Nature at its natural state.

I'm not a big drinker, but the best vodka I have ever had was a hazelnut vodka at a little vodka cafe in Krakow. It was so smooth, you almost can't believe you are drinking vodka.

Loving the report by the way. Your reports do not do well for the state of the economy...people want to quit and go ride!

Wauuw!

still enjoying every bit of the story. Thanks for the effort you're putting into it. keep it coming :thump

Beamster is a Gem!!
That pic of her covered in mud with a "Yeah......So?" look on her face, says it all.

Beamster was pretty much unfazeable ... by now even water crossings didnt bother her. She would just get on her bike in the morning and do what needed to be done - and would get off the bike at the end of the day with a smile on her face, whether it was rainy or sunny, muddy or dusty ... And would keep up with the guys in the process.

It's that Nordic stoicism.

I think I read on the TR thread that the guy who made your plate is now starting to make stuff for the TR, I think the plate may even be the same the difference being the front mount is different. You may just be able to get that front mount for the plate you already have. As far as other stuff interchanging I can't say for sure, but from what I've seen I don't think it would take too much to make some of the stuff you have (rack, auxiliary fuel tank) work.

Like your other ride reports I'm loving this one too.

So much WIN here.


F5 F5 F5

Thinks its time to correct a few things

http://austrianindependent.com/news...tiller__awarded_gold_medal_for__Organic_Vodka

my guess is you didnt use the bridge to cross.

you have PN

Thats the best pic I have seen of why low fenders are better. With Terry and Walters bike being relatively clean. Its that or the other two just like riding into all the puddles like 5yr olds.

Add me to the list of people thanking you for your ride report. It is pretty darn good.

Havta add here that I've swapped on several fenders to keep the mud down on my bike. I still use a high fender having been too busy doing other mods to do the low fender yet. (It's a DR650 fender with underbracing and alotta curve... works very well)

Prutser and Beemsters high fenders just happen to fall short (Pun intended) of being good clean high fenders.
I looked like that too back in 2010 on the Dempster...

Great stuff here thanx! Oh and YES I think YANA'S HOT!!!

Your very cute too Beemster!!!

Like lots of other folks, what a great Ride Report!!