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

[MuzToo.com]

Just drop by. And the beer is yours.

CHeers.

[Laurus]

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!

[Laurus]

Originally Posted by MuzToo.com

Just drop by. And the beer is yours.

CHeers.

Nice, would be lovely to drop by! :)

[Laurus]

Originally Posted by levain

This is awesome. Can't wait to follow along. I need to get my lambretta back on the road.

Thanks! Show us your lambretta! :)

[Laurus]

Originally Posted by conchscooter

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.

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

[Laurus]

Originally Posted by 0theories

Great start. Looking forward to this adventure! That looks like a spot in Morocco (but the road was better when I saw it)... anyone?

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

[Laurus]

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.

[Laurus]

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.

[Laurus]

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-...-met-oude-lada

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

[Laurus]

[Laurus]

Ten days left...