Welcome to Sibirsky Extreme – Adventure Motorcycling in Siberia
The Sibirsky Extreme website covers a series of exploratory motorcycle journeys into the northern extremes of Russia and Siberia in 2009 and 2010 by Walter Colebatch and his occasional riding companions, Jonathan Fox, Tony Pettie, Terry Brown and Sherri-Jo Wilkins. The 2009 journey, The Sibirsky Extreme Project, included a ride further north into Asia than anyone had ridden before, and an historic first ride of the now legendary BAM Road. The Siberian Extreme Project 2010 included the first tour of the Road of Bones, in which Sherri-Jo Wilkins became the first foreign woman to ride the Road of Bones, and a unique motorcycle crossing of Mongolia from East to West.
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The Sibirsky Extreme Project (2009)
The Sibirsky (Siberian) Extreme Project was a 2009 motorcycle adventure project to attempt to go into the ultimate depths of Siberia. The idea was to push the boundaries of what is known and what is possible in terms of motorcycling in Siberia and set new benchmarks and ride new roads and tracks that had yet to be explored by adventure motorcyclists.
The results:
- the first ride of the Tuva Track, a vague boggy route linking the Altai and Tuvan Republics, near the Mongolian border, between the towns of Kosh Agach and Mugur Aksy
- the first ride of the Anabar Road from Lensk to Udachny, further North in Asia than anyone had ridden before (over 66 degrees North).
- the first ride of the Vilyuisky Trakt, a dirt track that runs 1500 kms East (950 miles) between Lensk, Mirny and Yakutsk.
- the first attempt to ride both halves of the 4300 km (2700 mile) long legendary BAM Road, from Vanino on the Pacific Ocean to Taishet in central Siberia, and rode more of it (about 80%) than anyone had achieved before.
The Sibirsky Extreme Project will be followed up with a book and DVD. Details on both of those publications in the coming months.
Please choose from the Menus across the top for more detail on The Sibirsky Extreme Project.
A DVD is coming…
Stay tuned for when, where and how. In the meantime, here is a brief taster of the kind of adventure motorcyling lunacy to expect! Click on the link below.
Siberian Extreme 2010
In 2010 a second journey, Siberian Extreme 2010, began with the first motorcycle tour on the legendary Road of Bones, and included Sherri-Jo Wilkins becoming the first foreign woman to ride the Road of Bones. Sibirsky Extreme 2010 continued into Mongolia and achieved a first East-West crossing of Mongolia by motorcycle, and Walter Colebatch became the first rider to cross all 5 of Mongolia’s international land borders (Dzaamin Uud, Ereentsav, Altanbulag, Sukhbaatar and Tsagaannuur.
