Can a Harley make it to Magadan?

Congratulations on another miraculous feat Doug

You're getting closer to sainthood with each passing day and mile, whether you like it or not

Thanks for taking us along on your ride.

Good job Doug , what an adventure! Hey GSBS, that's quite a clip you posted :huh not sure if I should laugh, cry, or clap my hands..

edit: just showed it to my teenage son............ didn't notice the shoes the band was wearing.........WOW!!

Just freakin awesome! You are definitely the man.

Doug, Tom, others.

Very well done.
Looking forward to the RoB reports and pictures for the last week.

Please have a round of drinks on me at the Green Crocodile - and post the photos here !
(Tom - can you please pay it, I'll repay you when we are both back home)

I'll add my Congrats to the throng as well.
Way to go Doug!!!

Way to go Doug!

HD has been making bikes over 100 years and this is the 1st time one has been to Magadan?

I thought they had been all over used by various military groups and such.

Right on!

Excellent ride-along for the rest of us psuedo-adventurers! Congrats on making Magadan. I was hoping to see you at Barber but figured you'd be on the road. I'll look for you there. Buy you a coke. Be safe. Hope to see you soon.
Troutrider

Ok, that was just weird. :huh

Congrats Doug.

Doug's from Alabama and in Russia - get it? I actually thought it was pretty cool that the Red Army Choir would play with the Leningrad Comboys.

Way to go, Doug! Congratulations!!!

that was friggin awesome....SOOOO over the top!

You got that right! Awesome!

Lololol.....I'm sure it's used with poetic license ...more figurative than literal....


....and it prolly wasn't actually a CNN report either.....

:eek1when did the chick from the b52's move yo russia?

Tell me it ain't so!!!! :eek1 Nooooo!!!!

Congrats on getting the Dirtster to the end. Now waiting on the pics and report. Gotta be AWESOME!

Wow, Thanks everyone!

Im still a bit sore. got lucky tho, found a boat leaving today for vladi, so I will put the bikes on it, and fly to Vladi tomorrow, spend a few days letting my body heal a bit, and do some siteseeing with Poly.

3200km of mostly gravel/potholed/rocky road really took the wind out of me.

Im glad I made it here, but I really wish I could have done the old summer road cutoff, but it was not meant to be. They had bad storms a few days earlier, & the Kyubeme river had washed 2 russian jeeps downstream the day before we got there as they tried to cross, & it was still pretty high. We could have crossed it in a big Kamaz truck, but there were other rivers to deal with after that. The crazy guys from Moscow (there were 5 of them left, Oleg crashed south of Yakutsk, & broke his arm)
said they were going to try it. 2 days later, they were only in Tomtor, and I havent heard anything from them in the last 3 days.
But, they are MUCH better riders than I am, and have much better bikes. plus, my airfilter isnt good for deep water.
But, as Im an idiot, I was willing to try it with them, but Tom had more sense and didnt want to try, as all the locals said not to.
So I stuck with Tom.

Maybe another day, I will come back. But for now, at least I made it here, and I am going to get a Magadan tattoo to commemorate it :)

Doug

Nice job Doug!

Open House at Doug's place when you return ... storytelling ... backslapping... handshaking?.... I'll chip in some dough and help...


Glad you made it. Sounds like the right call on the Summer Road! :eek1