Sibirsky Extreme 2012 - The Toughest Ride of Them All

[hardwaregrrl]

Whoa!!! Great video!!!! I really loved the music at the Vitim crossing.....always makes my heart race! I look at that pier in the water about 2/3 of the way across and it really shows how high you are and how strong the current is. Thanks for sharing!!!

[davesupreme]

alexander's 'russian song' is one of the best things i've heard in a long time!... very cool....

[Prutser]

Great video Steve.

A shame our trip ended just before you guys joined.
I would have loved to travel with you guys (and could have used the man power to push my bike through the deep rivers)

[BDG]

Originally Posted by stemic01

Hi guys.
Here is a beta version from the BAM road. It is just a bunch of videoclips thrown together and is not very well edited at this point. Since theis is just a pre-release and not a final version I have chosen to password protect it. So consider this as a special beta version for you Advrider inmates. A better version with tighter editing will be available at some point later.
Photographers: This is a collection of videos filmed by the whole crew so thanks to Geir, Erik, Walter and Terry for your contribution.

Check it out here and use the password "rtw2012"
http://vimeo.com/59360179

Superb, really enjoyed the video, this whole report is gripping reading, mouth watering and inspirational

[joatmoa]

I've just managed to catch up with this thread and thought I'd chuck a couple of, what I believe, are facts into the mix.
When KTM were asked to supply bikes for the Long Way Round crew they were also asked to make a substantial donation towards the films production costs. I believe it was over £180,000. KTM was a small firm at that time and couldn't afford to 'donate' that amount. BMW obviously could.
The problem with the 2008 KTM FI pump was that KTM sent the spec sheet for the pump to China and had them built there. Unfortunately the builders 'cheapened' the design. This caused major problems on the 2008/9 models when bits broke off inside the pump. It wouldn't make any difference what fuel or what additive you put into your bike at the time. If you had a Chinese pump, it was going to fail.
I was closely connected to the KTM franchise once and I believe that the above facts are true.
In 2011 when I took a Ural Cross sidecar outfit to Mongolia, I heard a lot of stories about the LWR trip. If half of them were true then it was a filming exercise to make money.
Now to a leading question...
Does anyone know if there's a viable track up the Eastern side of Lake Baikal to the BAM road? I'm heading around the World in May and would like to take the Vitim Bridge in but didn't want to track back to Irkutsk, from Mongolia, unless strictly necessary.
By the by, for my journey I'm using an air-cooled, carburetor'd bike with soft luggage and without ABS. Then I can fix just about anything on it. I've also shunned the use of aluminium as it's easier to find a MiG welder than a TiG welder when in the wilds.
Love the report.

[Blader54]

Steve that is a great little film you've made. Really captures many of the challenges the team faced!

[RoninMoto]

Originally Posted by ROD CURRIE

Hi far,
Sherri-Jo Wilkins has been on a long RTW ride on hers for a couple of years and contacted me the other week about hers-I think she was having pump issues..quel surprise!
She now has more then 100,000 kms on it and it's still all good, so they'll do the miles.

If my memory is correct, she had about 90,000 kms before she needed to replace her topend. And the fuel pump that went at 100,000 miles...? That was the original.

[Aarrff]

Incredible video! Thank You!!!

[lakota]

Originally Posted by aarrff

incredible video! Thank you!!!

+1

[cvcaelen]

indeed,
thanks for that video.
Don't you guys have an adrenaline-rush after crossing those bridges,
I know I have, just by watching the video

hasn't been said enough: wonderful report & stories: giant thumbs up

Christiaan
who will never complain again about some bad roads over here
not after seeing what you've been through

[Fox8]

This picture just speaks words. The gentleman seems to see something in you that he admires.

This is my first post and this RR is the sole reason why I created an account. If its too much to ask, I am curious as to how many in the group are prior military, not that it matters. But it does take a special kind of person to keep on going with a smile while it gets miserable at spots.

Thanks for the storyline, I look forward to reading this every morning when I get to "work". Often pretending as I ride to and from work.

[capeklr]

Awesome video, thanks for taking the time to put that together and posting.
Jörg.

[BSUCardinalfan]

Originally Posted by stemic01

Hi guys.
Here is a beta version from the BAM road. It is just a bunch of videoclips thrown together and is not very well edited at this point. Since theis is just a pre-release and not a final version I have chosen to password protect it. So consider this as a special beta version for you Advrider inmates. A better version with tighter editing will be available at some point later.
Photographers: This is a collection of videos filmed by the whole crew so thanks to Geir, Erik, Walter and Terry for your contribution.

Check it out here and use the password "rtw2012"
http://vimeo.com/59360179

you guys rock. awesome video. awesome thread. just amazed at every turn. thank you!

[Packer]

+1

Those sleepers just look so slick.

[Blackbert]

Originally Posted by Fox8

This picture just speaks words. The gentleman seems to see something in you that he admires.
.

About 20cm in body height?