Sibirsky Extreme 2012 - The Toughest Ride of Them All

[2WheelieADV]

Originally Posted by ROD CURRIE

I probably won't put this very well but will have a go. IMHO much of one's mindset is weather and location driven. When you wake up on a beautiful morning in total silence apart from the birds, and open the tent flap to a knockout view ....how could you wish to be anywhere else, but when you've taken off soaking gear the night before having pitched in the rain and wind, and wake up in the rain to put on cold soaking boots yet again it'd take a better man than me to paint that smile on and not question my motives and choices.
But then when you find yourself riding towards that big blue patch and feel the first of that glorious warmth on your clothes. Man!...how good is that.
Maybe the contrast is what makes it great too....but all you guys know this. blah blah.

Right on target, Rod. I was riding around Europe on a very tight schedule, and felt exactly the same.

[tee bee]

Originally Posted by ROD CURRIE

We waited til Terry was asleep then dragged him out well away from the tents, staked him down, painted some honey on his arse and put a Mars bar in his hand .

[2WheelieADV]

Originally Posted by Colebatch

Well I had a girl in Moscow, who I flew in to see every month or so. I had tickets booked to fly to Moscow in about a weeks time from now. It meant I was on a very strict schedule, stricter than the others.

What woman can do even to a hard-core adventurer... kidding

[hardroadking]

Thanks so much for sharing your adventures with us, it truly means a lot and adds a richness to my life that can only be had through stories like yours and the smaller scale adventure rides we do ourselves. I think it was said best in a previous post that this electronic medium allows us readers to share your camp site, camp fire, your riding and some personal feelings mixed in showing how much we are all alike with our dreams and our tragedies (loss of loved ones...canine and human)

I frequently talk about you guys and your trip with my local friends and refer to you by your first names as though you are close buddies of mine. I get the question...how did you meet them? and then rather sheepishly I say well, I haven't met them but I know them from this internet site... Just another indicator of how well you guys tell a story as well as how much all of us riders out here are mentally in the same place you are.

hoping you guys and all the readers on this site are having a great holiday with your family and friends !!

[MuddySump]

Originally Posted by Jurassic

Hey Walter, guess what I found (in Asda supermarket in Dumbarton of all places)?

I'm not usually a fan of vodka but that stuff is indeed very good.

I was drinking that the other day in France. Have to agree it is very nice, could even drink it straight and slow

[Prutser]

When Beamster's bike was back together Terry and I took a look at our GPS to make a plan for the day.
We would be going back to Aktash that day. But we didn't feel like going back to the M52.
Zooming in on our GPS's showed some small tracks, but they didn't go all the way to Aktash.
My montana showed other things than Terry's zumo. Non of them could be linked together to make it into one track.

But as we claim to be ADV riders, lets just go and see how far we could venture.



The tracks were leading us towards the snow covered mountains. That meant water.....lots of it !

[Prutser]

( a few of the following pics are taken from our videos. Apologies for the poor quality)



The next stream Terry showed Beamster how to fishtail across.





With a big splash she tried to imitate Terry.



In total we had to do more than 20 crossings that day.

[hardwaregrrl]

Awesome!!!!

[Shaggie]

red x's



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gosh i love this RR

[CharlestonADV]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Sibirsky Extreme 2012 team. While I don't have personal hopes to participate at this level of adventure riding...I think it is very appropriate to say thank you for the inspiration to 'ratchet up' my plans for more aggressive adventure travel.

[nachtflug]

Originally Posted by CharlestonADV

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Sibirsky Extreme 2012 team. While I don't have personal hopes to participate at this level of adventure riding...I think it is very appropriate to say thank you for the inspiration to 'ratchet up' my plans for more aggressive adventure travel.

roger that. with all due respect to Dr. Rock and Francine they certainly take it to a new level and are worthy of being on the top of any podium were there to be one for adventure riding in 2012.

this crew is the real deal.

[Rango]

Originally Posted by ROD CURRIE

We waited til Terry was asleep then dragged him out well away from the tents, staked him down, painted some honey on his arse and put a Mars bar in his hand .

And that's why there are no more bears in the Altai

[Beater]

Originally Posted by Prutser

In total we had to do more than 20 crossings that day.

Freakin' awesome.

Any problems for the Airhead? Some of those pics looked deep! How did your bags fare in the water?

[gregMo]

...just wondering how was Beamster handling deep waters by now ??? I guess not bad at all...

and of course... Merry Christmas Everybody!!! To the great new adventures in 2013

[achesley]

Hope the whole gang had a Very Merry Christmas and Santa was good to you. Now, recover and get on with the