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I have had it put to me that I should really write a book on the journey I took (2008). Maybe I should, but so far I haven't. All that is on offer are a few pictures for the time being.

Trying to look 'aaard and road ready outside home in HK	Crated and ready to be sent off to S.Korea
Warehouse monkeys in Zarubino broke the dial	Backyard banya, my first ever. Almost fainted with the heat but it worked a treat to soothe sore muscles.
Vladivostok city limits and sign	Helmet hair and 1,143 km to Chita
End of asphalt with spare fuel and oil This is (was) the start of the Zilov Gap	Further into the Gap 3rd day and colder than expected
Lovely lovely tarmac, 4th day and getting close to Chita	The Dirty Looker, in the motel carpark in Chita
Mr Thomson gets a bedbath from Chita's very own Daisy Duke	Cold and not amused. Photo taken in a bus shelter along the approaches to Lake Baikal. The wind was so strong against me I had to stop because of the sleet obscuring the vision
On the road to Baikal but 2 hours later	Beautiful Baikal ruined by wood pulping factory, this taken facing SW
A slight problem with the grit build up and the beginnings of a 2 week lay-up in Kemerovo Not a pretty site	Me, Igor my minder, Alexey the mechanic, and Mr President of the Siberian Motorcycle Clubs Association trying not to get too bladdered whilst waiting for new piston n' bits.
Happy and on the road again	This is Eugene, he towed me for 15km with his Ural Moto as the Pazon ignition had failed. He took me to his friend, Sergey's house who was a mechanic in Krasnoyarsk.
Sergey sorting out and installing my points and condenser in a field just outside Krasnoyarsk.	A check point on the way out of Ekatarinburg where they wouldn't let me take photos of them in the flesh but no such qualms for Captain Carboard. Their Ural police bike
At a Makdonalds on the outer ring road, Moscow	Happy as hell on the road between Moscow and St. Petersburg
Just across the water from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg	I was a very tired man that first night in St. Petersburg
The Narva Gate commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in the 1800's	Anatomically correct statues on top of the Narva Gate
The Customs sheds at Coal Harbour, St. Petersburg	The Immigration Hall at Coal Harbour, St. Petersburg
Riding onto the MV Translubeca	Submarines on the approaches to St. Petersburg
Shap's Corner	Edinburgh, The Scott Monument in the background

Trying to look 'aaard and road ready outside home in HK

Crated and ready to be sent off to S.Korea

Warehouse monkeys in Zarubino broke the dial

Backyard banya, my first ever. Almost fainted with the heat but it worked a treat to soothe sore muscles.

Vladivostok city limits and sign

Helmet hair and 1,143 km to Chita

End of asphalt with spare fuel and oil

This is (was) the start of the Zilov Gap

Further into the Gap 3rd day and colder than expected

Lovely lovely tarmac, 4th day and getting close to Chita

The Dirty Looker, in the motel carpark in Chita

Mr Thomson gets a bedbath from Chita's very own Daisy Duke

Cold and not amused. Photo taken in a bus shelter along the approaches to Lake Baikal. The wind was so strong against me I had to stop because of the sleet obscuring the vision

On the road to Baikal but 2 hours later

Beautiful Baikal ruined by wood pulping factory, this taken facing SW

A slight problem with the grit build up and the beginnings of a 2 week lay-up in Kemerovo

Not a pretty site

Me, Igor my minder, Alexey the mechanic, and Mr President of the Siberian Motorcycle Clubs Association trying not to get too bladdered whilst waiting for new piston n' bits.

Happy and on the road again

This is Eugene, he towed me for 15km with his Ural Moto as the Pazon ignition had failed. He took me to his friend, Sergey's house who was a mechanic in Krasnoyarsk.

Sergey sorting out and installing my points and condenser in a field just outside Krasnoyarsk.

A check point on the way out of Ekatarinburg where they wouldn't let me take photos of them in the flesh but no such qualms for Captain Carboard.

Their Ural police bike

At a Makdonalds on the outer ring road, Moscow

Happy as hell on the road between Moscow and St. Petersburg

Just across the water from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

I was a very tired man that first night in St. Petersburg

The Narva Gate commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in the 1800's

Anatomically correct statues on top of the Narva Gate

The Customs sheds at Coal Harbour, St. Petersburg

The Immigration Hall at Coal Harbour, St. Petersburg

Riding onto the MV Translubeca

Submarines on the approaches to St. Petersburg

Shap's Corner

Edinburgh, The Scott Monument in the background

That was it for Russia. There are a lot more photos and more to be said but for the time being I will just leave these for your perusal.

Why on a Bullet? As a kid I grew up in India and these were the ultimate bike in those days. I knew I would only ever do it once so why not a bike that had meaning to me and so it becomes obvious.

JR