This was my first solo trip with such a long distance to travel, and the main personal conclusion I got: nothing is impossible. In any situation there were good people who helped to solve any problem.

What can I recommend to those who are planning to ride to the Siberian North?

• Take warm and waterproof clothes. The more the better. Even in the middle of August you might have to ride through +10°C and rain for days.
• In order not to mess with getting a pass to the Arctic circle from Novy Urengoy, you can take an alternative route. Locals say there was good tarmac and a stela as well. Though I haven’t checked it myself, so no guarantees here.

If someone has been there, please comment if there is a stela and how good the road is.

Now to the numbers.

From start to finish, the trip took me 30 days. Of which 10 days were spent with relatives near Chelyabinsk, not on the road.

Travelled 8 216 km in total.

Spent 1066$, of which:

• accommodation in hotels and motels = 326$
• service + tuning a motorcycle before leaving = 241$
• gasoline = 204$
• food = 187$
• other = 108$

Thanks a lot for your attention (I’ve got no way of knowing, but I hope at least someone had good time reading the story)! It’s been a bit — well, hell of a lot honestly — scary to publish here for the first time. But I’m still alive. And happy to have done it.

Wish you a better luck with the Siberian weather. Cheers!