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18 Jul 2012
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chita to khabarovsk roadconditions
Hi all,
we will be on the road between chita and vladivostok in a few days. Anyone actual information about road conditions and safety situation? Anyone travelling the same direction? Thanks.
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19 Jul 2012
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Originally Posted by joe & gini
Hi all,
we will be on the road between chita and vladivostok in a few days. Anyone actual information about road conditions and safety situation? Anyone travelling the same direction? Thanks.
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Its fine - asphalt all the way
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19 Jul 2012
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Its asphalt all right..the kind that makes your tire bounce hard every 1/2 seconds..there are several road works...
The last benzine out of Mogocha is at the west of the village on the highway..behind a fence with no sign.. Then 90km from Mogocha a P sign with lorries another impromptu benzine.. 198km from Mogocha..horrible chin on the road that almost wiped me out. Last benzine out of Chita...to left cross the street...nice kafe.
Exactly 298km between the benzines. Avoid only gastinitsa in Mogocha like a plague. Came through there two weeks ago.
I bet in two years this road will end like the horrible road between tyumin abd samara.
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Here's what it was like in 2008! Khabarovsk to Chita - YouTube
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Getting it tarmac'd all the way was one of Putin's goals prior to his (re)elections and coronation.
He was widly shown in the papers and on TV riding a moto (and sometimes a quad) on the beautiful, totally empty, shiny, brand new road looking as good as any in Western Europe.
Being Russia, it transpires it was not built to the full spec (despite the appropriate money being channelled for that purpose) and much failed to adequetly survive its first winter.
But the election had been comfortably rigged by the springtime - while someone had the skimmed funds neatly stashed away somewhere. Probably the money laundering centres of Londonistan.
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Originally Posted by Tony P
Getting it tarmac'd all the way was one of Putin's goals prior to his (re)elections and coronation.
He was widly shown in the papers and on TV riding a moto (and sometimes a quad) on the beautiful, totally empty, shiny, brand new road looking as good as any in Western Europe.
Being Russia, it transpires it was not built to the full spec (despite the appropriate money being channelled for that purpose) and much failed to adequetly survive its first winter.
But the election had been comfortably rigged by the springtime - while someone had the skimmed funds neatly stashed away somewhere. Probably the money laundering centres of Londonistan.
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Tony - with comments like that about your adoptive home country, you'd better be careful about which sushi restaurants you eat in!! 
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25 Jul 2012
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Originally Posted by Tony P
Getting it tarmac'd all the way was one of Putin's goals prior to his (re)elections and coronation.
Being Russia, it transpires it was not built to the full spec (despite the appropriate money being channelled for that purpose) and much failed to adequetly survive its first winter.
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Lucky we did it last year then - plenty of good tarmac at that time...agreed, also lots of roadworks but nothing the trusty GS couldn't handle. Made for a varied journey, broke up the boredom of the long asphalt road to have a stretch or two of crappy road.
Last edited by strimstrum; 25 Jul 2012 at 21:00.
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19 Jul 2012
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Vlad 2 Ulan-Ude
Last week we made Vlad 2 Ulan-Ude.
From Vlad 2 Khabarosk a lot of roadwork and patholes.
Khabarosk 2 Ulan-Ude all good!
Cheers,
Marcelo
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Thanks to all for good information. We will be on the way by next week.
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Its fine - asphalt all the way
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you must have taken a different road to me then
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