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mmm. Difficult, and potentially dangerous by bike, but not impossible. Just be totally prepared.
Travelling by bike in winter has lots of benefits:
No flying teeth,
No tourists,
Amazing scenery,
Locals may be more friendly to a shivering biker,
Cakes and coffee are extra special tasty
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mmm. Difficult, and potentially dangerous by bike, but not impossible. Just be totally prepared. 
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You sure about that? Have you done it? Any reports of anyone doing it? And rather than "potentially dangerous" let's just call it "dangerous". And I'm not sure how much friendlier the locals could be?
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A few have done it so it's doable, which doesn't mean it's advisable. Very, very long road so you can imagine that road conditions are very variable with snowfall and snowdrifts. Bikes ride fine on ice with studs, not so well in varying depths of wind driven snow. Not for the faint of heart.
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By bike?
It takes two weeks in summer just 'motorway' cruising at 70 mph for long long day after long long day. Daylight is up to 20 hours a day.
In winter sunrise hours can be as low as 3 hours.
We are talking about a problem free journey probably exceeding 2 months by bike, unless contemplaring riding in darkness. Potentially all in sub-zero temperatures day and night. And that's just from Moscow - it's often sub-zero all the way from France to Moscow too!
Most people along the actual T-S Highway are not the really friendly, interested, helpful folks you meet or read about in remote, deep country areas. These are only here for one purpose - profit from the road. There will always be exceptions, but consider the 'real' people you meet and get their help in a Motorway services area compared with those in a farming village!
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Any reports of anyone doing it? And rather than "potentially dangerous" let's just call it "dangerous".
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Agree its dangerous. Not much to see apart from whiteness in the short daylight hours, and blackness the rest of the time.
I know the paraplegic Dave Barr has done it on a bike a decade ago ... he wrote a book on it ... 'Riding the Ice'.
Never heard of anyone else riding it in winter on 2 wheels.
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