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20 Aug 2013
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thanks,
we will leave tomorrow hopefully. everyone in mirny has been fantastic. we got the window sorted out with a plastic replacement and as it was my birthday we got taken out for food and then to the zoo. one place even gave us a whole cake! not put my hand in my pocket once either.
we have an interview with the news tv soon also. not sure were going to be able to leave!
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20 Aug 2013
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thanks,
we will leave tomorrow hopefully. everyone in mirny has been fantastic. we got the window sorted out with a plastic replacement and as it was my birthday we got taken out for food and then to the zoo. one place even gave us a whole cake! not put my hand in my pocket once either.
we have an interview with the news tv soon also. not sure were going to be able to leave!
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I have always enjoyed my stays in Mirny too
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21 Aug 2013
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Hey there Gareth
A belated happy birthday.
Good to see things are going well for you
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21 Aug 2013
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Whew, just got caught up, lots of action!
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22 Aug 2013
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A few pics.... Most taken by Felix
My fav pic. Just before the Vitim River Bridge. Interestingly this is the puddle that my Transalp refused in and where I turned her round
Vitim
Vitim, indicating right
Digging the bike out the mud.Took 4 hours overnight
It's behind you...
Taking a break at Kuanda
Monument on the BAM
Felix walking his bike across a road bridge
No bridge and huge water in the river
Ideal for the terrain
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23 Aug 2013
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Some more pics that overlap the ones above... Quite a few by Felix
Todor and Alexy, 2 Russian truckers whom I helped change my Transalp clutch after taking the detour through the river and not the bridge
Horses, weather is still ok
The road got progressively harder. This is real easy.
A road sign on the BAM
Don't ever call me fat
Sorry, another Vitim pic
Despite his 1980s Russian mullet, Felix is a great bloke
Doing the PETE BERRY Bottom Dance at Kuanda. Nobody slapped me! ;-)
We are not worthy! The kids were overawed, I think.
Womens' work. Painting the seaplane monument at Taksimo
Mum, dad and kids return home from the supermarket
Lunch of Happy Cow cheese sandwiches with salami on the bridge where I toasted the trannie clutch on the detour next to it 10 days before.
Another down bridge near Chara
My new motor. Mk3?
In Tynda while trying to buy a new back tyre I ended in the local bike clubhouse garage. At first I though it was a flag pole holder, but baseball bats fit in too :-)
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23 Aug 2013
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The puddles must have made me batshit crazy.I just tried to paddle across a deep fast river and get to where i could stand. Then i would have pulled my bike across using the panniers to hopefully float it. I didnt plan it perfectly and I paddled across with a few metres less rope than I needed and was anchored by the bike whoch fortunately didn't get pulled in.I didn't take into account that I would float downstream in my rope lenth estimation.I may try again tomorrow when I'm not rushed by the sunset with a beautiful campsite just the other side of a river instead of the muddy mosquite infested spot on this side.
In other news I am only a few km from fevralsk. Just need to get across the river. The bridge has guards who arent able to let me cross.if I come to my senses tomorrow ill ride back to a siding station and catch a train across.if not ots more stupid adventure.
I've been up all night sitting by a campfire looking at the river and just realised I had reception.
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28 Aug 2013
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Vil. trakt done in 4 days of pouring rain. It was not much fun in a 4x4, it would have been miserable on 2 wheels! Recovered a few local vehicles in the sandpit. We finished off all brake pads down to the metal. I replaced a rear pad 2 days before we got to Yakutsk (used with 3-4mm left) and it was metal when we got here!
Barge costs (Rb) for a 4x4 from west to east were: 450, 500, free (the bloke liked us), 500.
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29 Aug 2013
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Grinding Paste...
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Originally Posted by Griffdowg
Vil. trakt done in 4 days of pouring rain. It was not much fun in a 4x4, it would have been miserable on 2 wheels! Recovered a few local vehicles in the sandpit. We finished off all brake pads down to the metal. I replaced a rear pad 2 days before we got to Yakutsk (used with 3-4mm left) and it was metal when we got here!
Barge costs (Rb) for a 4x4 from west to east were: 450, 500, free (the bloke liked us), 500.
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That whole region is grinding paste in the rain...a real vehicle wrecker
Tynda - Yakutsk : Khandyga - Yakutsk and the above
Heading back to Irkutsk along the Trans Siberian we were lucky enough to be hosted by two bike clubs (Mogocha & Ulan Ude) and we also spent an evening with the Irkutsk club. All asked us the same question...
"Why the f@#* did you ride to Magadan???"
Its a fair question, and one we've been asking ourselves for the past 5000km!!!
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2 Sep 2013
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Tynda,
just arrived.... will be here for a two days, and then BAM.....
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2 Sep 2013
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Tynda,
just arrived.... will be here for a two days, and then BAM.....
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bloody hell mate ... havent heard from your tracker since you returned to Khandyga and the Aldan River.... all ok?
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2 Sep 2013
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bloody hell mate ... havent heard from your tracker since you returned to Khandyga and the Aldan River.... all ok?
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September seems late, will look forward to the report on weather conditions.
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3 Sep 2013
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a little kid was sitting on my bike while I was waiting for the ferry, (unknowingly at the time) he pushed the help button, and I haven't been able to turn it back on. have spoken to SPOT about it, and they will send me another one, if I can get a mailing address, im thinking the Oasis guesthouse in Ulaanbaatar.
the bike and I are fine, just minor fixes needed from the vibrations..
have learned a lot from that road..... I NEED better suspension, front and rear set up to work together, looking foward to riding it again
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bloody hell mate ... havent heard from your tracker since you returned to Khandyga and the Aldan River.... all ok?
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3 Sep 2013
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night before last, I wild camped about 60km south of Aldan, medium frost in the morning, i don't get up early, so it's not an issue for me. 10am - 8pm, fur now it's comfortable to ride in, after 8, the temp drops quickly.
if you camp, just make sure your tent has a good view east for the morning Sun to burn off the frost...
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September seems late, will look forward to the report on weather conditions.
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3 Sep 2013
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strange, my SPOT tracker also died on the Aldan river, never to recover...
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