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You are welcome, Ryuhei!

Firstly, on a motorbike I think this is not possible unless you have a support truck with you. The temperature regualrly gets down to -50ºC and even in March it will be easily -25ºC. Also, the fuel range of a bike will be nowhere near enough, it can be 1000 kilometres between fuel stops.

Even if you could manage this, the road is designed for large 6WD lorries with huge, wide tyres. It's not for normal road traffic. In the Kolyma region, there is relatively little snowfall so it's not too tough, but once you get close to the Arctic Ocean, the snowfall becomes much higher.

You can see the route of the winter road here: https://yandex.ru/maps/11443/sakha-(....886004&z=5.85

I would say that you just might make it to Srednekolymsk if the roads were cleared (what would you do if you have to stop for 3 days in -40ºC in the wilderness??), but after that it gets tough. There are Russian videos on YT showing the route... I would not take my winter-prepared 4x4 there, to try it on a bike would be very unwise. Plus, what are you hoping to see / achieve?

Sorry to say but it's just not going to happen on a bike.

You could try to do the Kolyma Highway in winter on a bike, but you would need some serious protection from the cold, and modifications to your bike, as well as tyres which can grip in soft, deep snow, hard packed snow and hard, smooth ice. There was a guy from one of the Baltic states who tried it, I'm not sure how far he got... To go from Yakutsk to Magadan unsupported in winter on a bike would be an achievement.

Have you ever experienced such temperatures or ridden a motorcycle on ice? Do you speak Russian?

I drove it in a Toyota Hilux Surf in February, with some modifications for the cold, and an extra heater inside - to do it in a car is quite possible. But on a bike... I think it would be extremely tough and need a lot of preparation and experience.

My trip report is here: https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hu...n-kolyma-95144

I think you need to abandon the idea.

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