Vladivostok to Western Europe - how long?

[SeniGreg]

I am looking at a 4-6 week Russian Trip in July 09

I have worked out it is easy to ship my bike from Australia to Vladivostok and am trying to work out whether to ride in a big loop around Siberia and the Russian Far east and Mongolia or just keep heading East until I get to somewhere in Europe where it will be reasonably easy to put my bike on a ship back to Australia.

I have a maximum of six weeks for the whole trip so my questions are:

1) Is it worth spending the whole time in Far East Russia and Mongolia, or

2) Is a run from Vlad to Western Europe a reasonable ride in the time frame. As a general rule I would not want to ride more than 6 hours a day on average

3) Any left field suggestions for a better trip in this time / time-frame?

Thanks


Greg