There’s adventure riding, and then there’s Siberian adventure riding.
In Russia, the Ural sidecar is king, at least for riding like this. What else can you ride 12 months of the year, over snowy roads? And what else offers such grounded stability when you want to cross a river that basically submerges your motorcycle?
Words fail me.
How do those engines breathe to combust fuel for so long while completely submerged?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzKyeIex2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNxw7wbER88
If you’re Charlie and Ewan, you get a couple of truckers to carry you across – and one of the trucks almost got carried away.
And then you make a movie about it and don’t say where you got the idea and who gave you advice (cough cough, Mondo Enduro, cough cough).
Beemer! Rode mine this morning…
Makes the Night Wolves (Putin’s favourite gang) look like a bunch of sissies.
Where is the air intake on those things? On the rider’s helmet?
I was wondering the same thing. They must have run the carb vent tubes up to their ear lobes.
wow