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Tuesday 11 September 2012

SOME PIC'S

THIS WAS THE START MILEAGE ON CARL'S BIKE 27137

THIS IS THE MILEAGE AT THE END OF THE JOURNEY 37509

ANDY & CARL REACH THE PACIFIC. FURTHEST POINT IN RUSSIA-LOOKING TOWARDS THE U.S.A

ANDY & CARL ALONG WITH THE BIKES CATCHING THE TRAN SIBERIAN EXPRESS BACK TO MOSCOW

CARL & ANDY THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST

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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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Tuesday 11 September 2012

SOME PIC'S

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