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Saturday 28 April 2012

thankyou speed demon & cafe racer

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Chris Armstrong28 April 2012 at 18:06
Hi Andy (and Carl) - Have a great trip - travel well - enjoy. Keep us up to date with progress and photos via the 3rd-man blog. I can probably find you a contact in Moscow, if you need one. Keep safe. Chris (Armstrong from the Nepal trip!)
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ROCK 2 ROCK16 May 2012 at 13:23
Thanks for your support, I'll tell Carl and Andy about your offer of a contact in Moscow.

Sorry for the delay in replying, still trying to work this whole blog thing,lol
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trans siberian highway

The most problematic stretch of the highway lay between Chita and Khabarovsk. The first section of this route, linking Belogorsk to Blagoveshchensk (124 km in length), was constructed by gulag inmates as early as 1949. Extended and updated between 1998 and 2001, this road forms part of the Asian route AH31 connecting Belogorsk to Dalian in China.The Chita-Khabarovsk road remained largely unfinished up until early 2004, when Russian President Vladimir Putin symbolically opened the Amur Highway, with great swaths of forest separating major portions from one another. Jim Oliver and Dennis O'Neil rode motorbikes across Russia, along the Trans-Siberian Highway, during the last week of May and the first three weeks of June in 2004:back then, as described in Jim Oliver's book, Lucille and The XXX Road, the section between Chita and Khabarovsk was an extremely challenging undertaking among marsh, gravel, rock, mud, sand, washboard, potholes, stream fording and detours of the elusive highway with a noticeable absence of pavement. In the following years the road, in some places was a modern paved highway with painted reflective lane-lines, while in others a single lane meandering, pockmarked, loose-gravel trail following the route of the early 20th century Amur Cart Road. Completion of a 7-metre-wide highway between Chita and Khabarovsk was slated for 2010: now the road is in very good condition, completely upgraded and enlarged and with a smooth surface.[1] Asphalt paving of the highway is expected to continue until 2016.[2]

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