The Kindness of strangers continues... 23km I left the hotel about 11am after a decent sleep. The day before had yelded no tyre and even worse some information that it would be impossible to find such a tyre in Chita or maybe even anywhere this side of Moscow! Giving up is not one of my strong points so I loaded up the bike and decided to attempt to ask all 600,000 residents of Chita if they had a rear tyre for a DR650 lying around. Ended up in the right sort o...

Russian roads 3000km in 6 days I might try and fill in gaps later but for now I'll give you a quick run down of were I've been. I left Vladivostok about 12pm the day after getting the bike and made my way towards Khaborovsk, I stuck a few sections on road works, but it was mostly good road. Camped off the side in what looked like a rubbish tip, but I don't think it was... Made another 500km or so the next day on again mostly good roads, broken up with sections ...