UK to vladivostok, via stans - mostly paved.

[whatsisname]

hi all,

i am planning a trip, london to vladivostok, then over to north america. but my question is for the uk to vladivostok section. bike will either be a very uprated bandit 1200s or a 2014 bmw 1200gs (started another thread about that choice!).

i have zero offroad experience at the moment, and a pretty duff left knee that limits a lot of what i can do, so i'm looking to do it mostly paved. i look on in awe and admiration at you hardcore mongolian river-crossing off-roaders, but no way could my knee handle that sort of thing!

so my question is about paved routes. i know i can do most of russia paved no problem, but would love to go turkey, georgia, russia, kazakhstan, some of the other stans, kazakhstan again then russia again. drop into mongolia from the north down to ulaanbaatar, back up to russia again to vladivostok.

is this even remotely possible predominantly paved? i have no particular time limitation to do it in.


thanks!

gary.