Everywhere Virtually

Sibirsky Extreme Project DVD Join prolific adventure motorcyclist and Siberia aficionado Walter Colebatch and his friends on a ride of discovery into Central Asia and the darkest depths of Siberia. Sibirsky Extreme was the journey that pioneered new routes across Siberia, including the legendary BAM Road. This journey also features the Tuva Track, Vilyuisky Trakt [...]

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I decided to leave Lindsay and Delilah to do their own thing today as I’m sure they wanted to plan the next leg of the route, blog a little, have some rest etc. I had a chat with my friend Greg who is currently playing doctor to his girlfriend who has just come out of [...]

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Tomorrow or should I say today some friends of mine arrive from the Czech Republic. They are a 3 strong team but only two of them have set off in advance of the third who is sorting out visas back in the UK. They are part of the 2010 London to Cape Town team. Riding [...]

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For those that are thinking whaaaat? How come everywherevirtually has stickers on the Russian/Mongolian border sign first let me explain. I would like to say yes I put them there, but sadly no. Well not yet anyway. My friend, fellow adventurer and motorcycling doppelgänger Simon Johnston from www.awayfromhere.org fame placed them there on his recent [...]

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Sibirsky Extreme 2010 is underway. I have known for some time that it was going ahead in July when I met Walter in the UK last month at the Horizons Unlimited event. His bike had been upgraded in many areas from his original suppliers. I had also learned that Sherri Jo Wilkins would be joining [...]

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As we trip into the wee small hours of the morning I remembered that I should log two highlights that happened to me yesterday. The first being the arrival of Austin Vince & Lois Pryce’s DVD. As the embryonic components of a hack are beginning to take shape in a secret Austrian garage I have [...]

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A few weeks back at the Horizons Unlimited event in Derbyshire I said to a friend of mine if he was ever in Austria to give me a shout and we’d meet up, sample the local cuisine and have a ride around the lakes and mountains to the South West of Linz. I’d met Paddy [...]

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Before I write another thing I would like to thank Grant & Susan Johnson and Chris Colling & Dave Lomax at adventure-Spec for making my attendance possible this year. Without them it would not have happened. the 2010 10th anniversary event was much bigger than previous years. As I rode up the driveway to Lumb [...]

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www.awayfromhere.org I had the pleasure of meeting up with Si Johnston yesterday. He had embarked from Northern Ireland early on in the day, Coleraine to be exact with the today’s destination being Cambridge but ultimately he is headed for Mongolia. That’s quite a ride by anybody’s standards and he had a deadline to meet. The [...]

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