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Well I am interested too! I will be leaving in Feb all being well and can hang around in Europe for a while before teaming up.
Has anyone put a cost estimate for the journey? If some rough figures could be indicated for the trip this would be useful.
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How ted this is that ttr I'll message you with his contact details if you are interested
Let me know m8
Nice meeting up today
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On eBay at £920 nothing to do with me
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I've seen it on eBay.. Looks alright. If I had the spare cash and space, I'd have it.
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There's another ttr 600 04 that's about £1500 with no miles on, that's a bit of a steel
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It's getting so close to the off, one or two changes, I was planing to do this with a guy called Ian but with money and time both have forced Ian to pull out so I'm left to do this on my own, I'm still leaving on May the 5th from newcastle to Amsterdam then heading to Greece, from there I'm open to a few options that I'm happy to leave open to decide as I travel, I will be heading across Russia and the stans, indicted how I get across to Vancouver yet, I plan to finish in New York to have my bike shipped back to England, I'll post some pictures of my xt 600 Tenere soon as it's just about rebuilt, just having the touring racks cut and some welding so I can have them powder coated, I've also thought I would make some engine crash bars, it looks cracking can't wait now.
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Hi there,
I plan to go back to Far East Russia this summer to ride the BAM and RoB to Magadan.

This year I have 30 days holiday in July and want to ride the Bam and RoB via OSM. Plan to ride as fast as possible from Romania to Lake Baikal (10-14 days depending if I spend some days in the Altai/Tuva) and then head on the BAM and RoB to Magadan.
My bike is a V-Twin, 600 cc, 1993, Honda Transalp.
From Magadan I want to ship the bike to Vladivostok and from there by Yuri from Links to Europe. I worked with him before and was good. He also has good references from other travelers. I would like to split the container and the costs with other riders who will want to ship back from Vladi.I will fly direct home from Magadan.
I’m looking for anyone planning a similar trip, and want to share information and ride together at least parts of the road and/or organize the shipping of the bikes back.

The other option is to find anybody interested to fly to Magadan and ride back to Europe?

It would save a lot of time and money at both ends.

 If anyone is interested please let me know your thoughts about it.

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Bike is now ready and it runs so sweet just done some small adjustments today, very nice, just sorting my tool kit and spares,
Waiting on my visa, real Russia is doing the application.
Leaving on the 5th may, I'll be in Hook of Holland the next day then heading across Germany take a day or two to Salzburg stay in the hostel, head to Slovenia Croatia Bosnia Montenegro Albania Greece turkey Georgia Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Russia Mongolia Russia.
Hope to meet some of you guys on the way for a few drinks
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I'll be taking a inreach sat gps, you can follow me as I travel to faraway places or just round corner to my local pub,,,,,,,the unit will not start till the 5th may at 1 pm that's when I leave,
Some of you guys that I've spoke to who are traveling the same sort of way about the same time this is a easy way to pinpoint my location at any time, you can save the link to your device, it also lays a track down to show where I have been or when I lay way points down will show where I'm going
This is the link.
https://share.delorme.com/GrahamButler
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That should take you into a map of the world and a live link to my location or you can ping me to have a location sent back to you as it updates about every 20 minutes
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Great Trip
Hi Graham,

It will be an amazing trip, my wife and I drove a very simlar route in 2014 but in a converted prison truck, we traveled from UK to Thailand see our web site below, we will follow you on your mapping device.
We hope you get as much enjoyment as we did.

Good Luck and safe journey

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Good evening dave, thanks m8, I looked at your trip last year it was very entertaining, I enjoyed reading through it,
I'm not one for logging everything down then putting it on paper or computer but I will start a new post on here and post some stuff from time to time,
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Hi Graham,

I am starting a very big task ? much bigger than all the visa aplications etc for the trip. I am trying to convice her in doors that a trip back to the UK or Europe with the truck is a good idea.

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Hi Graham,

I am starting a very big task ? much bigger than all the visa aplications etc for the trip. I am trying to convice her in doors that a trip back to the UK or Europe with the truck is a good idea.

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Good look dave, look forward to some good reading m8
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I've now managed to adapt the Bmw 1200 GSA panniers to fit my xt600 tenere,
The problem I had was the boxes on the Bmw the exhaust was on the opposite side to the tenere so I reversed them round it worked out well. I cut and strengthened the bars that's attached to the frame by welding infills in between.
I've also had to order some new led indecators as the standard ones are to big and will not fit with the boxes on, the new indecators are led strips so I've also ordered a inline resister so that the indecators will repeat as I'm running a lot of gadgets on the cockpit I may as well change all the lights to LEDs so it doesn't take to much out off the battery as its charging on the go,
I've managed to pick up a romoss power pack this will charge some off my gadgets on the move instead of plugging into the bike then charge it up on the evening time,
I've taken a few pictures where I'm at now
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