I drove Barcelona to Vladivostok in 2015 in LR Defender. Nice drive. Asphalt all the way on the main roads. Secondary roads can deteriorate into helldrives rapidly. Asphalt is sometimes good, sometimes very bad.
In Vladivostok, you can container back to Europe or take the ferry to Japan or Korea. Uri Melnikov and his company LINKS are the people everybody seems to deal with. I found them extremely professional. They will store your bike and then bundle it with a few others to save money, if you are not in a rush.
Mongolia, except for the main road from Ulan Ude to Ulan Bataar is strictly for offroad vehicles, especially the further west you go.
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