I've been thinking about doing the road of bones for about five years now, starting from the northeast England riding to magadan then fiying back to Moscow then riding back home from there, with been a property landlord there always something stopped me but I'm 50 years old and I need to do this, at first I was thinking what bike to use BMW gs as that's what I ride but I think it will make more sense to do it with a smaller bike endure still with touring boxes so not to small,
It 9000 miles to magadan the most I've done is 4000 tour of Europe. I'm not planing a set time as I want to take in as much as possible so would expect anywhere between 70 to 100 days. As I've said its just at planing stage, I happy to do this on my own but my wife would be more happier if I did this with some one so I thought I would post this to see if some one like me been thinking they need to do something like this before they can't so please pm me let me no your interest I would be happy to disuse what you would want out of this adventure.
I was planing to do this 2015 I now it a long way off but it will give me and possibly others so We can start to get together all that I may need, I would expect a forecast budget of £10,000 at today prices so in 2015 expect £12,000 that would include everything except the cost of the bike as possibly you may have already got that,
I'm from the northeast, don't hold that against me I've been apart of the cycling touring club for Many years (cycle camping in remote areas) been around motorbikes for a good few years, I do all my own bike maintenance.
If any one has any info or advice all is welcome as I've said if some one is thinking of doing something like this I would be happy to talk pm me and I can send my contact details
Thanks graham

Hi Graham
Are you talking about the old summer road via Tomtor for the road of bones? If so I wouldn't want to do it on a GS.
If you are looking at doing the M56 federal road then the GS should be ok, bit big and heavy though.


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I'm not sure how I will get to that point yet but I will be looking at that thanks
Do you no where I can get some free mapping for Russia

If you mean maps for your GPS the research Open Street Map. There's lots of info on OSM on this site. Colebatch's v. useful waypoints are in a sticky in the Northern Asia sub-forum.

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Update to my trip to magadan,', starting northeast travel to hull ferry to holland into Germany through Poland through ukrain cross border into Russia near the Black Sea cross the border into Kazakhstan beside the caspain sea, enter Russia again to drop down into Mongolia, through Mongolia back into Russia heading up to Chita then doing the road of bones to magadan,,,,,,
The bike I've decided to do this adventure on is a BMW 1150 gs my reasons behind this is firstly is cost I don't have thousands to though at this, second the 1150 is very easy to work on, no transponders to go wrong no cambus system like on the 1200gs thirdly I've got one in my workshop.

I no its 2015 before I go but I've started to remodel the bike for the trip, total strip down rebuild with some interesting mods, I'll post some photos as I go along, if any one is interested in this post any questions let me no


This is the BMW r1150gs 2000 with 66000 miles not anything special no abs good bike to start with as a blank canvas

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I got the bike from a guy on the GSuser forum quite cheap few weeks ago, its in very poor condition, not been look after at all cosmetically, last two years it's been used all year round lots of corrosion around the engine, but the service history is full before that and the guy said he serviced it twice a year, the engine is strong, for the rest of the bike I intend to rebuild with a complete nut and bolt change, then colour change, I think I will turn it into BMW rallye red and white as BMW forgot to do a 1150 rallye, they done all other models

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Hi mark
yes I think ill do the old summer road, I no there's problems on that route but I think if I went all the way to magadan not to do that road I would regret it.
Thanks graham


This is the start of the strip of the "GS"

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Hi Graham,
Going to be tough on a GS, are you travelling solo or with others?
I would be careful if going solo, I did it in 2012 and the weather was fantastic so a GS would have probably made it.
This year nobody rode it as the weather was so bad.
Good luck on the adventure.


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Mark thanks for any advice it's much appreciated, plans charge as you no
I intend to leave end of May 2015 if some one is interested then I would be happy to share the experience but happy to do solo

This is the front of the bike stripped down getting it ready to shot blast the engine next week

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Tank, panels, engine bars, rear frame back from the paint shop

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Here is the back end built up

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After having a good think about the bike ride in 2015 I've had some interest so I thought I would post some plans, leave about June traveling about two to three months, possible booking a container to ship bikes back to England or ship to down the coast to Vladivostok then train across Russia jump off at some point to ride three thousand miles back to northeast,
The travel back is open at the moment as not sure at the moment

Thanks graham

Sounds like a great trip you have plannd Graham, and the bike rebuild is looking good. Best of luck with it.

Dave

I'm planning a similar trip in 2015 also...

I'm also a BMW moto technician. But I doubt anyone wants one of those around

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