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Hello folks,

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back on here! Corbs thanks very much for all your support bud, really do appreciate that.

Well I'm now in Vladivostok having crossed Russia. I've met Yuri at links shipping and he's arranging the bike going to Japan for me. The prices have gone up about four-fold from what I researched last year, now costing about $1,200 to ship to Sth Korea from Vlad (my ferry ticket included and all costs both sides). It then costs about another $1,500 to get the bike from Korea to Japan, so I'm just shipping straight to Japan and I'll meet it there after a week touring Korea without the bike.

My next issue is air freighting the bike from Japan to Thailand. Does anyone have any contacts for this at all please? I've sent a few emails out but nothing yet.

I'd appreciate any help you guys can provide.

Cheers

Bruce


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Riding the world on 2 wheels

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about time you put in some presence Bruce.. )
anyway a bump as youve posted up another set of photos from recent leg...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 862&type=3

bump-Bruce is now in Korea- additional photos up, and extras on his facebook page..
http://www.teapotone.com/site/pics/
https://www.facebook.com/TeapotOne

bump-blog 6 is now up n running- whilst bruce is in korea
http://www.teapotone.com/site/featured- ... ivostok-2/

Hi guys,

Quick update, now in South Korea and spending a week at my dad's work place in Ulsan for some R&R. Met some guys from a local ex-pat motorbike club called 'Bang Go MC Club'. One of their guys is currently back in Norway and has given me his BMW K1300S to use for the week, as well as his riding kit! Amazing eh!

The lads have taken me out a few times up into the twisty mountain roads around the city, absolutely amazing biking roads. Knee down heaven

I've had a nightmare with one of my external hard drives I store all the trip files on, it died the other day as I was editing the next episode! I've had to send it back to Blighty to some specialists, hopefully they can rescue the files. If not then I'm afraid there'll be no second part of Russia vid to accompany the blog!

Now got multiple backups going on and getting to work getting some decent footage of Korea.

I head up to Seoul either on Sunday or Monday and will spend a few days there before heading to the DMZ, then back to Donghae for the ferry to Japan on the 8th.

From there ill spend a few weeks touring Japan and getting the beast serviced somewhere (still nothing from Suzuki, they don't seem the slightest bit interested? - amazing)

I'll be visiting the Bridgestone HQ and also possibly the Shoei HQ, then I ship to Thailand around about the 23rd, but still organising that.

Apart from the disk drive nightmare, it's all going well. I've got a new, specially built subframe coming - I'll announce more details once I've fitted it, so hopefully it'll cope with my fat arse better than the OE one.

Russia was incredible, the people are beyond words. I'd recommend anyone to go there, it's a hard slog, and will hammer your bike no matter what you ride, but oh so worth it.

Now, on with the next stage.

Thanks for all your support folks, it really does make all the difference.

One life, Live it, Love it, Loving it.

Bruce

Great to see you still full of enthusiasm Bruce. Keep up the great blog and reports with photos and the gopro videos if you can.
is it possible that suzuki are aware youve had subframe issues on multiple occasions and they might be thinking the gixxer wasnt designed to do the road surfaces youve subjected her to over many thousands of miles therefore any involvement could hurt the rep as bits mite still be falling off for the rest of your journey? (mite all be plain sailing from here-better roads? in most places) or maybe not.
mite not be the reasons but surely if there are positives for suzuki to glean from your journey suzuki could do well in learning from how the bike performs-an ultimate test if you like?
personally id be putting sensors around the bike and uploading files for studying engine dynamics and other useful things - i would also have a series of garages suzuki ones- for strip downs and checking components throughout the adventure-wear and tear, failure, spot the weaknesses.
anyway some juicy pics of the shoei factory would be great -ive been wearing em since mid 80's and swear by them- would be interested to see an article you post on shoei- same goes for bridgestone - they had 120k miles worth of 010 and 020 on my blade from 2001-2011
you still practicing the sean connery accent mid way through the videos? )
best wishes Bruce- ride safe and keep up the good cause for which your raising funds for

bump-bruce has uploaded a 10 minute vid of a play in korea on bmw k1300- lucky $@%***

bump -bruce has uploaded some Korea Photos..
http://www.teapotone.com/site/pics/?id=524344087620237
facebook updates...DMZ tomorrow
https://www.facebook.com/TeapotOne?hc_location=stream

Bump -Bruce is moving along-Passion Trumps Logic? Bollo$- Breathe in the Air and Live

bump-bruce is in Japan-fresh Phot album
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 862&type=1