Russia 2010 - to Siberia until Lake Baikal (part 3)

Roughly 20,000 kilometers by motorcycle in 6 weeks.

The small pictures represent clickable links that are leading to the respective larger picture.
Back to home page
Back to part 2

Now this were no West Europeans, but Russians who also had travelled far (from the Krim), and again with Honda's 52° engine..

Occasionally (!) longer road sections are under (re-)construction, where (in lack of any deviation) one must somehow pass through ...

... sometimes fairly easy to drive, but sometimes also deep loose gravel.

And occasionally there is also one-lane traffic.

Railroad crossings sometimes allow being passed only very slowly, which also in absence of trains circulation can result in several kilometers of congestion.

But the Russian highway network is not at all consisting only of pot-hole paths.

Rest house and gas station along the way.

An exemplary service center at the highway: vehicle parts store, tire repair service and café are usually separate establishments (and not always all of them present at every gas station, but normally not too far away).

Gas station with mechanical liters' counting pointer. There first the reset knob needs to be pushed (and to be found, what even locals don't always succeed at first attempt ;-)