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If the poster's aim is to ride in as straight a line as possible through Europe, Russia, and the USA, then I would suggest that four months is quite a lot of time to do it in.

Sounds like an expensive way to earn bragging rights down the pub.


I would also add a point about riding through countries as fast as possible, that no-one has yet mentioned. Rather than furthering your understanding and knowledge of different cultures and peoples, it's probably going to leave you with an image of them further from the truth than the one you'd have had if you'd just stayed at home.

I remember the first time I (briefly) saw Eastern Europe: "Wow, the houses are so shabby, the cars so old, everything so dirty; these must be really poor countries without any of the conveniences we take for granted in the west".
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8 hours a day is not a problem, but setting you sights on doing 180 - 250 miles a day, every day, is (I would suggest). We rode from around 10.00 until 1600 almost every day for 5 months criss crossing the USA, doing mostly 60 mph
If you rode from 10:00-16:00 at 60mph it gives you 240miles a day. So I think aiming for an average of 180-215 miles a day is very doable, seeing that it is 25miles less than if you go 60mph for 4 hours. Yes some days you will do much less if you get a bad road, but on Europe’s A roads you’ll be able to do much more.

Sorry did not think of just going in a straight and after thinking about it 4 months gives you 112 days so it should give you enough time to go in a straight line. It’s just that usually the RTW trips you read about go through all the continents.

So to stick with the tread: Yes you would be able to, but I would rather do a shorter ( in distance) trip and use the 4 months to really take in the parts you travel.
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i got from england to vladivostok in 3 months .had time off the bike in most big citys along the way (waiting for visas ect) mongolia off road all the way and only got on the bike at about 12.00 each day.i was lucky not to break down.you would have to fly the bike and then ride flat out across the usa to make it home in time if you want a RTW in 4 month
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