Seeking fellows to cross the Baykal Lake in may 2019
 

If anyone is targeting to reach and cross the Baykal Lake starting from western Europe, down to the Balkans, Turkey, Iran, the Stans & Mongolia between late April till Early August 2019 timeframe and would like to meet up to do the journey together, let me know!

Hi,
I have 2 month. April and may.
I could start from Rotterdam

Let me know.
My email is : djinsital@gmail.com

Cheers,

Djin

Hi Djin,
Two months should be OK but we may need to change the itinerary, e.g. to cross Europe and enter Russia from Lithuania heading east straight till the Baykal lake and return from Mongolia, Kazakstan, .....
This year I completed a World Tour trip stage 1 over 3 months with my GSA Rallye, however I am thinking to buy the new Yamaha 700 for next year trip.
Perhaps you may wish to review my WT on facebook "Pierre de RUVO"
What motorbike you ride?
Kind regards
Pierre

Hi Pierre,
An I have your email. That is better to communicate.
My email: djinsital@gmail.com

Djin

Pierre, I am going the opposite way starting from Magadan going east, we could meet somewhere in the middle if it works, cheers Andi

part of it
 

For the moment I had only planned Iran as a maximum distance .
And I ride a himmie , 90 maximum ph.
pm following :scooter:

Hello Andi! It would be great catching up with you along our crossing pathways. Keep in touch. All the best. Pierre

I will ride to Lake Baikal/Mongolia starting late may, and enter Russia from Lithuania and do around 600 km/ day...i would love company!

@TPAU,
Can you email me your plans?
I am interested.
My email: djinsital@gmail.com

Djin

Planning on flying bike to Venice and starting end of March from there, planing on entering Iran middle of May. I would like to do BAM and ROB if I have company. I bought DR 650 for this ride as 1190 is too heavy for me to pick it up.

I'm leaving Sweden late May / early June. I plan to be in Tayshet / Bratsk in late June, heading east along BAM and onto ROB.

I need to catch a train back to Europe/Moscow from Vladivostok in late August / early September.

Riding a G650XC.

Feel free to PM.

Cheers,
Dave

I'm on a similar route.

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...y-2019-a-97134

Flying from NYC to Spain mid April and heading from there to Lake Baykal through the Stans-Pamir -Mongolia to ship the bike back to Europe.

I'm thinking going through Chechenia instead of Iran to avoid the x5 carnet.

Is it true that the Iran carnet is that expensive?

I was thinking about ferrying form Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan but according to Caravanistan there is a ridiculous amount of fees and unreliable boat schedules on that route, but open to do it if is not a pain in the ass.

I'll be guinea pigging a KTM 790 if everything happens as planned. Shipping my bike from the U.S. and back will complicate things too much for my tight schedule.

My email is martinlazaro at gmail . com

Hej Pierre,

how will you cross the Balkans?
I'm planning a ~4 weeks roundtrip in the Balkans for May.
I'll approach from Switzerland (maybe Austria), dive in through Slovenia and then basically head south (Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Mazedonia).
From there back via Croatia Coast, or Italy, not sure.

Greetings, Lars