gentlemen,
can i say a word?
as i worked for the only soviet motorcycling magazine and the editor of the travelling department of the mag who by some coincidence was the head of Soviet and then Russian Committee for motorcycle travelling worked at the desk in the next room
i believe the information on any foreign mototravellers between year 1991-2002 was available to me.
there was no story about riding BAM road
it should be clear for any one - it was a road of no significance leading nowhere. what's more - no foreign person could be let go along strategic railroad in that times. not possible. it was a forbidden route.
the main road was ( and is) THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY which was fully surfaced with tarmac only a year ago.
in soviet era it was the same hell as road to magadan now and the goal of any traveller was to do it.
if some still need some proof from history please contact Mr. Ivan Ksenofontov ksenofontov@zr.ru who is the very editor.
|