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Schoe000 · Expert

Summer Trip. Heading to Mongolia on the 13th July

wackyracer · Powermonger!!

Hey cool man! smile

Have a good expo mate, you'll come back as mad as Ed wink

tugboat · Clubman B

Wishing you all a safe and brilliant experience. Looking forward to your reports and videos with great interest.

jacks · Expert

Hope you have a great trip Nick, I'm looking forward to hearing your presentation at the Dolphin biggrin

Biff · Expert

Good luck Nick Have heard the milk out there is very tasty, do try biggrin

Kwaka Geoff · Clubman A

AWESOME!!! Have a great, and safe trip. Look forward to hearing all about it when you return.

V Twin Funster · Expert

Good luck, Nick.

We will have to book you for a talk at the Dolphin on your return smile

Craig

russell11031967 · Devon's Best

Good luck Nick smile Only a little bit jealous evileye perhaps I should have been a teacher wink

TTR · Powermonger!!

What an adventure - go Nick go!!!!

Good luck smile

Brian

Schoe000 · Expert

Thanks for the well wishes, arrived safe and sound in Mongolia, UB. Collecting the bikes tomorrow and hopefully heading out the next day :)

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jt · Powermonger!!

looks a big cooler over there smile like the KTM cub BTW!

Schoe000 · Expert

Hi from Mongolia, will post some picture when I find somewhere with decent internet. Done 500 miles through Mongolia, there are 7 of us, one engine seized and rebuilt, one engine big end gone and cheap Chinese replacement bought, another dead beyond repair so stuck at the moment. All the other bikes look like they are on there last legs and it only a matter of time before the next one goes. Had to tow one of the lads 20 miles across the steppe. One C90 towing another on sand is hard going. Been enjoyable but don't think we will make it to the UK, time will tell :)

TTR · Powermonger!!

Wassup Nick biggrin biggrin

Good to hear from you.

I always thought that Ed must have some sort of underbone guardian angel to manage to do the miles he has done without total bike melt down confuse

rich xr · Clubman B

Wow thats a lot of break downs in such a short time, it'll be a real miracle to get them home at that rate. Happy travels.

Schoe000 · Expert

Spent all day today rebuilding one bike fitting a new top end (barrel and piston). Of the 7 bikes only 3 are still running without major repairs. Can't send pictured at the moment. Suspension on my bike is on it's last legs so hoping to make it across Mongolia then head north for the Trans-Siberian railway and try to get a train to Moscow. Everything changes on a daily basis. Really it is now a case of keeping going as long as possible. I truly can't stand the site of the C90's they are just slow and not capable of crossing this sort of terrain.

-- Edited by Schoe000 on Friday 26th of July 2013 10:30:59 AM

rich xr · Clubman B

sounds like you have to find your way through the pain barrier, good luck mate.

jt · Powermonger!!

Is yours or the KTM C90 one of the 3 ?

Long as you all get home safe, thats the main thing smile

jt · Powermonger!!

This is what you needed Nick...

See here

Schoe000 · Expert

Finally made it out of Mongolia, 27 hours at boarder got through with paperwork. in Russia now and hopefully will post some pictures.

V Twin Funster · Expert

Glad to hear you're OK Nick. biggrin Looking forward to the pictures biggrin .

rich xr · Clubman B

looking forward to hearing your stories and wish I were there........ but maybe on a different bike.

Schoe000 · Expert

Bike still running... just. Made it to the train station and am going on the train to Moscow (Trans Siberian Train) hoping to leave tonight. Internet still very slow so can't post pictures yet ;(

jacks · Expert

Good to hear that you and the bike are still moving, albeit by train. What happens from Moscow? Are the rest of the group travelling with you? Keep us posted. smile

Schoe000 · Expert

At the moment I am about a day ahead of the main group. They should catch up tomorrow. I have been trying to sort out a train because at the rate we are travelling we will not be back till the end of September and I need to be back earlier than that (supost to be back for first week of September). We have travelled about a quarter of the way and used up nearly half of the time :( Most days we don't start travelling till 10:00 or later there is always some one not ready...... usually Ed.

Ed does not like riding in the rain so yesterday we did not start till 12:00, it rains most days in Russia/Mongolia this time of year so that is a problem. Because we are travelling so slowly we have had to cut out all the sight seeing it is turning into a chore of just bashing of the miles. The bit I really wanted to do was Mongolia now that is finished I am looking at ways of flying out. But as I entered Russia with a bike they are exspecting me to leave with it or have some paperwork to explain why I don't have the bike. I tried at the police station and they where not interested. If I could get the right paper work I would flyout tomorrow. But no one seems to know what I need.

jacks · Expert

You don't sound as if youre having much fun at the mo.

Sent you a pm.

rich xr · Clubman B

Have you considered not locking it at night..... I would report it gone to a different police station though.

Schoe000 · Expert

I have considered various options. Jacks sorry can see pms but can't reply. Am waiting for the rest to catch up got a chance of getting the bike on the train on Sunday if that comes off then will continue. If that falls through then will try to pay tax so I don't have problems returning. Have received up to date info from the Hubb so will be leaving on the train on Sunday with or without the bike.

jacks · Expert

Good, you've got a plan. Hope it works out for you. Keep smiling.

Simmo · Expert

Never seen the attraction of foreign travel in a group. Too many variables...

delvey91 · Devon's Best

Sounds like eds a bit if an arse

chrisoncbr · Expert

Yeah, if he can ride in the Arctic Circle, I would have thought a bit of rain would be nothing.........

Schoe000 · Expert

delvey91 wrote:
Sounds like eds a bit if an arse

Not really, I like the guy, but am not suited to his chaotic way of travel. Works ok when travelling as an individual but not in a group.

Schoe000 · Expert

Amazing day. Finally anfer two days of trying got our tickets for the Trans Siberiab Express. Stripped the bikes down and crated them ( well strapped them to a palet, this is an requirement). Got two of the seven bikes on the train and the station manager had an fit and chucked the bikes off and ripped up all our paperwork, that had taken two days to get. The reason for his fit was because we were over his weight allowance. An arrangement was made with one of the porters and he and 3 of his mates turned up with a truck we manhandled the bikes. Stacking one bike lying across three of the others and off we went to a different station and the bikes were manhandled the bike into a different train. Total price for that and shipping them 1800 miles...... 70 quid a bike.

Tomorrow we are taking the train 1800 miles to Moscow they should put nearly back on time.

Schoe000 · Expert

Made it to Moscow. He is a picture for Brian. A couple crossing Mongolia from Russia on a TTR250.

-- Edited by Schoe000 on Monday 12th of August 2013 04:04:42 PM

Schoe000 · Expert

A few from Mongolia.

jacks · Expert

Love the teepee picture. Enjoy the rest of your adventure.

TTR · Powermonger!!

Schoe000 wrote:
Made it to Moscow. Here is a picture for Brian. A couple crossing Mongolia from Russia on a TTR250.

Thanks Nick. Two up on a TTR across Mongolia though?

jt · Powermonger!!

Pic 4 is ace - its like the Purple helmets summer vacation biggrin

tugboat · Clubman B

Great pictures, Nick. More please when you can. Ride safe.

Schoe000 · Expert

Collecting the bikes tomorrow and then heading out to the Ukraine on Thursday. A few more pictures.

TTR · Powermonger!!

Hats off to you and your entourage Nick - what an adventure biggrin

Wouldn't have been the same if all had gone to plan. It's always the tricky stuff that you remember in later years wink

Schoe000 · Expert

Spent the day sight seeing in Moscow. Red square, Kremlin and Gorky Park. Feel like a tourist :) went wake-boarding for the first time in a scummy greenish pond. The last few pictures from Mongolia.

RichT4 · Champion

I'm amazed how big you make that Kestral look Nick.

Some lovely pics, keep'um coming please, Rich.

Schoe000 · Expert

Moscow

-- Edited by Schoe000 on Wednesday 14th of August 2013 06:36:54 PM

Schoe000 · Expert

RichT4 wrote:
I'm amazed how big you make that Kestral look Nick.

Some lovely pics, keep'um coming please, Rich.

It was only a Budgie :)

Schoe000 · Expert

One for JT. There was about a 100+ people standing on the Trans-Siberian express railway line. I thought that this was risky then they started crossing under the train so they did not have to walk around the train. I gave that one a miss.

jt · Powermonger!!

Schoe000 wrote:
I thought that this was risky then they started crossing under the train so they did not have to walk around the train. I gave that one a miss.

Wise move mate wink Track looks tidy smile

Schoe000 · Expert

Finally made it out of Russia at 25mph. Rings are going on the piston, top speed one the flat 30mph up hill down to 15mph. Rode today 200 miles to Kiev. So Chicken Kiev for tea :) .

V Twin Funster · Expert

Great pics, Nick.

What's your eta for the UK?

Schoe000 · Expert

V Twin Funster wrote:
What's your eta for the UK?

Not sure Craig. Staying in Kiev till Thursday. I have booked a tour of Pripyat on Wednesday. That gives me two days to sort out the bike, we are carrying a top end rebuild kit. We have done two top ends and replaced a complete engine so far. It's an easy fix if it is the piston or barrel. If something else then there are plenty of flights from Kiev to the UK. We will have to see.