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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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