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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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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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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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It is with great sadness that I have to hand back my F800GS. The recession has bitten me hard and I can’t afford the bike anymore. I could only afford such an expensive bike on finance and I can be glad I had two great years on it seeing places and meeting people others only [...]

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Late last year I took some time out to write a full review on the F800GS for Visor Down magazine. Thanks to Mark Godsland in the UK he made me aware that the article had been published along with all the feedback from my many friends and fellow 800 riders in the UK and beyond. [...]

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Fixing a bent footpeg – Attempt 1 from everywherevirtually on Vimeo.

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They’d probably not be as good as these… So the videos are fine but everything looks good in the factory. I can tell you that I have had over 5 heavy offs whilst riding the bike off road and in the snow. It has gone down hard and the bars only sustained cosmetic damage. In [...]

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