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Proposed "RTW" Route Feedback Required (we have the fever)
Ok, as the title of this thread says, we’ve got the fever, adventure motorbike fever and it’s getting to us pretty bad, like a bad itch that needs to be scratched, so we are uploading our dream trip and are looking for feedback / reality check / kick in the backside etc.

It all started when we watched Long Way Round, dam them for making it look so good, anyway after that it was Long Way Down, Race to Dakar, By Any Means, but our fever got worse and we needed another fix so roll on The Ride “Alaska to Patagonia”, and then we found the great Mondo Enduro and Terca Circa DVD’s ( it didn’t look as good but it was at least real and gave us a good feel for what it would be like ) from there we stumbled onto the The HUBB and discovered just how many people are into Adventure Motorcycling. The achievable dream DVD was another reality check but a pleasant surprise to see just how it could be done and that you didn’t need all the extra trimmings, this lead us onto the book or bible, the AMH by Chris Scott again a good surprise to see how the ordinary person could achieve extraordinary things in terms of overland travel, a few hundred web sites later and many nights on Google earth plotting our route arguing the toss about what would be the ultimate route for the ultimate journey which would be worthy of the title “RTW Trip”.

So here we are, we have come up with a route, now our thinking is we might as well aim high and strike somewhere in the middle rather than aim low and miss altogether so we have put together a route that combines all the above DVDs, mostly commonly travelled overland routes and so on to give us a route that covers the lot and slices through each continent along the way. There are a “LOT” of open items at the moment so please just remember what it was like when you started and how excited you were drawing red lines all over a large 8 x 4 world map plotting out your route. There is still a lot of planning / revising to be done but we wanted to upload this to get some initial feedback.

The ultimate goal would be to do the trip all in one go, but trying to work out what part and when is quite difficult when you take into account the weather and the different seasons, it could work out that the trip gets broken into stages and each part is done or completed during the best weather for that part of the world i.e. travelling to the road of bones in early August when the rivers are at the lowest and the mosquito’s are killed off by the cold nights and so on.

We currently own 250 cc road bikes (cruisers) and are getting lessons with the test coming up soon. We have 250cc dirt bikes on the way so we can get up to the wood and down the beach for some off road training. We don’t see this trip happening for a while yet at least 3 years or more as we have a lot of training, saving, research, planning left to do, so were not totally insane, not yet anyway.




Ok that’s a rough back round here is the proposed route

Starting in Ireland / UK heading to Europe up to the North Cape, down into Russia through St Petersburg, Moscow, Volgograd and on to Magadan (allowing 3-4 months) using the long way round route through middle Asia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, from here we ship to North America to start stage two of the trip the Americas. Starting from Dead horse right down the west coast to Panama City flying to Quito and down the west coast of South America to the tip Ushuaia (with a possible tour of Antarica without the bike of course) back up to Buenos Aires (allowing 4-5 months) fly over to Cape Town to start stage 3, Africa, travelling up the east coast up to Cairo (allowing 3-4 months) before beginning stage 4 lower Asia. Stage 4 will consist of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Northern India, Nepal (allowing 2-3 months) from here we fly to Bangkok to start stage 5, stage 5 will consist flying to Beijing leaving the bike behind in Bangkok and joining a backpacking tour that covers the silk route through China all the way round to Shanghai ( takes around 2 weeks or so ) head back to Bangkok to start stage 6, this will consist of covering Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and down to Malaysia (allowing 1-2 months) from there ship over to Sumatera to begin stage 7, this will consist of travelling down to East Timor and Dili along the islands (allowing 1 month), from here shipping to Darwin to begin stage 8, from Darwin down through Australia to the Southern Coast and up along the Victoria and new South Wales to Sydney (allowing 1-2 months).

As I said there are a lot of open items and the time scale it still subject to research, we mainly wanted to see has anyone completed a trip of this scale and if so have you any advice, dose anyone want to take a pot shot at how much they think a trip like this would cost and how long it could possibly take, apart from the bike and taking into account we don’t mind roughing it and camping would be no problem as long as it was safe and was cheaper than staying indoors in that particular country. How much do you think a trip like this would cost each guy partaking?

We have the Yamaha XT660Z in mind as the bike for the trip at the moment.

So as I said a lot more research needs to be done but we would be interested to get initial feedback so see what other more experienced people think.

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ATWR
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