Russia

The lists are made, we’ve agreed who’s carrying what, and we’ve looked at the weather forecast. We’re ready for the weekend. We’ve deliberatly chosen to do this long run on a weekend when we have to finish work on the Friday, leave for the weekend and then go back to work on the Monday –…

I’ve been playing with a few methods of tracking our route and displaying it on the site whilst we’re on our trip. Couple of reasons for doing this, but mainly it’s there to show our progress, and if anything goes wrong, where we were at the last upload. I’m working on a way of pulling…

It’s coming up fast – our first training run. We’re heading down to Dartmoor to try our hand at ‘long distance‘ riding with rough camping. The aim this time is to see what the dynamic between the three of us is like. We’ve ridden with each other before but not actually all three of us…

When we first started talking about doing this journey we always knew that we wanted to do something – however small – to highlight a charity very close to our hearts – that charity is Everyman. Everyman fund research to help cross out male cancer, they also spend a lot of time educating people about…

So now we’ve managed to complete our basic route, we need your help. Do you live on or near our stops? Do you have the latest information on our border crossings? Do you have any practical advise on how we can keep our bikes running perfectly over 5000 miles? We’d love to hear from you,…

With the New Year comes new determination from the Journey To Russia team – the final route has been finalised and the ferries are being booked. You can see the final route here.

Journey To Russia is explained simply; 3 Blokes, 3 Bikes, 3 Weeks. The journey starts in September 2007, when Matt, Patrick and Stace leave the weekly londonbikers.com meet for the far flung cities of St Petersburg and Moscow. The journey will cover several thousand miles in a very short period, crossing the familar western Europe…