Matt - good question. It really falls into 2 parts
- what others perceive as Adventure, and
- what you perceive as Adventure.


I am just back from 10,000 miles across Russia - about 25% on bad and 10% on very bad or non roads. Others, who havn't done it, call it an adventure but I don't. It was in truth little more than a trip from London to Devon, across part of the moor, and back - 50 times!

Sponsorship? Why? It makes you behoven to others who will want some form of payback from you, sooner than you just following your own pleasure.

Ignoring food and drink etc that I would need at home anyway, and the bike itself and routine wear and service items, it cost me the grand sum of £758.08 (the .08 was a repair, 4 rubles replacing a pannier frame bolt that shook out on a 30 mile bone-shaker of a mountain pass!).
Why sell your soul for so little?

I had no support, travelled alone apart from traffic pals along the way, but did have the advantage of our flat in Moscow and friends providing accomodation in towns and villages along the way for 37 of the 51 nights - saving perhaps £700.

Still £1558 is cheap for a wonderful 8 weeks on the road (I use the word as a generality!). But not really an Adventure.


Steve - great post. but you forgot to mention the spare helmets., How would they have done it without those? Too much chasing fame and freebies I think.

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