Sibirsky Extreme 2012 - The Toughest Ride of Them All

[chinchinete]

"Here Beemster confessed .... she was absolutely petrified of water crossings.!"

Charge on, Beemster, I am as petrified as you are when river crossings show. .

Thanks for the RR

[Jurassic]

Originally Posted by ROD CURRIE

Hi Jurassic.I've PM-ed you for a little more detail. ....and they're all ugly, that's why I made mine purty!

Cheers for the PM Rod. Your bike is truly gorgeous as you say (even if it is a little highly strung ). Mine was really, really ugly though (and still highly strung!)

[Beater]

Originally Posted by squiffynimrod

$5.00 says Prutser's airhead has zero problems on the trip.

+1. And a beer.

[Beam(st)er]

Originally Posted by chinchinete

"Here Beemster confessed .... she was absolutely petrified of water crossings.!"

Charge on, Beemster, I am as petrified as you are when river crossings show. .

Thanks for the RR

I had a lot of practice this trip...
And a couple of weeks later they didn't bother me anymore!

[chinchinete]

Beemster ...Great!!! I wish I could say so

BTW, I noticed you are using the Traverse Jacket. Are the pants Traverse or Dakar? So far that jacket is optimal (almost perfect) for my riding -commuting and ocassional off road here in Central America where humidity is one issue; showers and 30+ temperatures a free offer . How did you like the jacket? Would you recommend the extra money for the pants?

Cheers

[skiin_ian]

Just found the thread and it made my night! Just starting, but I bought the video about 6 months ago, and will buy this one as well, if you make one!

One of these rides is DEFINITELY on my bucket list!

I'm normally a lurker, but this is enough to get me out of the shadows! :-)

[Beam(st)er]

Originally Posted by chinchinete

Beemster ...Great!!! I wish I could say so

BTW, I noticed you are using the Traverse Jacket. Are the pants Traverse or Dakar? So far that jacket is optimal (almost perfect) for my riding -commuting and ocassional off road here in Central America where humidity is one issue; showers and 30+ temperatures a free offer . How did you like the jacket? Would you recommend the extra money for the pants?

Cheers

For this trip the jacket was a bit too warm, so I think some more vents would have been nice.
The pants is Traverse as well. No complaints...
Except after rivercrossings the water stayed beween the lining and the outher layer.
Which made my pants heavy and pulled down...

[Beam(st)er]

Originally Posted by Colebatch

Here Beemster confessed .... she was absolutely petrified of water crossings.!

And on the first few miles on the dirt, on the first day of the ride for her ... we had a BIG water crossing.

I still had to get into adventure mode after being stuck in the hotel for 5 days when Walter drove towards this big shiny lake. He stopped and I thought he wanted to take a picture but all of a suddon he walked right in! What the f#@*??? I asked Walter what he was doing. Well we are gonna cross this river he said. I said this is not a river, this is a lake! I really thought he made a joke but a few minutes later I knew that he wasn’t...

This all looked very challenging to me because I started offroad riding only one year ago. I started playing in sand, riding tight trials and motocross tracks, and I loved it! But river crossings... There are almost no possibilities to practise that in Holland.

While I was watching the guys for a few minutes walking around in the water, I was wondering how I could persuade them that this was insane. But 4 guys, 1 girl, I knew I couldn’t win... So I also walked in, trying to find a route to the other side. Walter was already in the water with his bike. He was halfway and I thought it did not look good seeing his bike sink that deep! How the \*#@* am I gonna do this???

[High Desert Rider]

I love this picture! The level headed gal and her bike thinking, "this doesn't seem like a good idea..." and the four brash guys already half way across walking/riding/pushing the bikes. We don't think; we just do. Sometimes it lands us in a bit of hot (cold?) water

[cuneesity]

Originally Posted by Beam(st)er

For this trip the jacket was a bit too warm, so I think some more vents would have been nice.
The pants is Traverse as well. No complaints...
Except after rivercrossings the water stayed beween the lining and the outher layer.
Which made my pants heavy and pulled down...

Just as long as Walter wasn't behind you, you were probably OK

[motorfret]

@Beamster:

There were a lot of places to practice this in Holland. I know quite some of them here in the area.
You just didn't ask me

[Beam(st)er]

Originally Posted by motorfret

@Beamster:

There were a lot of places to practice this in Holland. I know quite some of them here in the area.
You just didn't ask me

Hi Quadfret
I'll keep it in mind for the next trip!

[trailtosakhalin]

We have a lot of rivers in Holland: Rijn, Maas, IJssel etc

[Prutser]

Originally Posted by trailtosakhalin

We have a lot of rivers in Holland: Rijn, Maas, IJssel etc

Iff you think those are suitable to practice rivercrossing you'd better put on a life vest bofore you ride in
Let me know when you are going. Than I'll bring a camera

[kahlgryndiger]

Originally Posted by Prutser

Iff you think those are suitable to practice rivercrossing you'd better put on a life vest bofore you ride in
Let me know when you are going. Than I'll bring a camera

Well ... he should try this one