Quick update.
Managed to get OSAGO insurance in St Petersburg (Alfa) for the princely sum of £8.
Route was probably the usual St Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhy Novgorod, Kazan, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Ishim (should have gone north to Yekaterinburg / Tymen - plus road to Ishim was garbage), Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tayshet, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ule, Chita, wild camp, Belogorsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok.
Weather in September was great, sunny days (20c) and no rain, but bitterly cold at night from Ulan-ule to Belogorsk - not great for camping. Roads are generally fine. (Usual watch out for pot holes, crap falling of lorries etc..)
Key lesson - beg, borrow or steal a business visa as the tourist visa means you are always on the move. (Would have loved to have spent more time in Nizhy, Omsk, Kras, Ulan et..).
Bike was rock solid. Bumped into a Japanese guy on a Honda 110 Cub - so can do this on anything.
Americas next
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