Hello
I am reading the stories of this forum for a while and I even joined the facebook thingy.
A while back I posted about a japanese guy I met in france, I joined him as we had the same route (Eurotunnel) for the day.
Posted in on facebook
HERE
Since then we stay in contact, he sadly had a harsh crash in switzerland and has to abort his adventure.
We mailed a lot and my mind slaps me for days to ride to Japan. So I started to search here for detailed infos (thank you Chris of Japan!) and I think this is possible.
I am not entirely new to motorcycling, I rode several in your eyes smaller tours (~4000km) in 2 week vacation blocks and enjoyed camping a lot.
But this is something completely different, am I right here? I mean I just travelled Europe, not much offroading, plenty of gas stations and so on.
Vladivostok is 12000km from my hometown, in far eastern Russia, or in my eyes on the other side of this planet
So I consider myself a newbie to that kind of long distance riding and I would like to know what you guys think of it.
Especially when it comes to gear, I own a 2012 KTM 990.
Please forgive me if I did miss some search terms, if there are recommendations for total newbies please refer me to them.
Many thanks in advance and safe travels