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Photo by Alessio Corradini,
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Hi guys & Gals

My bother in Law & I will be 50 in 2008 & we want to celebrate with a bike trip. We both ride cruisers & have been round the Baltics & the Med & various other bike trips together.

One idea is to go to the top of Norway then Sweden, Finland, Russia etc. I would like to match it with 50 something, towns, days etc & we want to raise money for the http://www.nabd.org.uk.

As we both ride road bikes we can't really go off road, so any imput from other bikers would be greatly appreciated.

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speedmaster58, when are you going to ride? I could give you some ideas where to ride around S-Pepersburg and Moscow. We have many off-road trails.
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speedmaster58, when are you going to ride? I could give you some ideas where to ride around S-Pepersburg and Moscow. We have many off-road trails.
It will probably be between June, July & August 2008. & it would be nice to do St Petersburg & Moscow but we are both on Cruisers, 1 Triumph Rocket & 1 BMW cruiser so I don't think we will be doing too many off road trails unless we get lost. lol
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How about doing something a little different and coming over and checking out our Maidstone.

That would be Maidstone, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Good paved roads and plenty of .

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The U.S.A. is made up of 50 states.If you ride to Alaska you get Canada as a bounous.Fly to Hawaii and rent Harleys. Done and happy and broke.
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Sounds a bit cold all that northern european stuff,get yourselves a dual purpose bike and do the whole of South America,starting in Colombia a place all 50 year olds need to visit!!!!!!!!!
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It will probably be between June, July & August 2008. & it would be nice to do St Petersburg & Moscow but we are both on Cruisers, 1 Triumph Rocket & 1 BMW cruiser so I don't think we will be doing too many off road trails unless we get lost. lol
If you take the main roads, most of them are in a good conditions, we will oraganise motorcycles tours around russia next year, so, I will always have information about real situation on road.
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If you take the main roads, most of them are in a good conditions, we will oraganise motorcycles tours around russia next year, so, I will always have information about real situation on road.
Thanks for that, let me know the details of your tours when you are up and running as I have a few friends who would be interested in them.

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