The Black Pig is going east in May/June for a week or 6 and defo going off road and i'm after a bit of advice on what the DIES on the XT660Z !!!

I've already got the list .....extra pads , cables and rectifier but it'd be helpful if others know of more.

Tried me GL on today and gave it some stick !!! Doesn't fit as well as on the DR , but still there when i'd finnished



Nice tight wooded trail


Cheers Phil

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Depends how far east u are going.... maybe a spare set of cush drive rubbers,
a good set of tyre levers and a few spare tubes if u end up in Mongolia

Where ya going Phil??? Sounds intriguing!!

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Wont be able to get to Mongolia this time Geldof unfortunatly but in answer to your question Sandman , The Balkans and behond through Turkey and into Georgia.
Wanted to do the full circit of the Black Sea but Visas and Ins for Russia and the Ukraine would blow my budget But there's always next year

Phil

PS just realised i've posted this in the wrong place !!!any chance the mods could shift it to XTZ prep long trip please

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All going well I will be heading to Mongolia this summer. Whats the craic with Insurance in Russia then? Thought you could just get it at the border

Coming over the border from Georgia; I bought my Russian insurance in the first city I came to (Vladikavkaz; I could probably find the co ords of the office if needed). It wasn't too expensive as I recall. The day after I bought it, I was pulled over by the police who wanted to see all my docs, including the newly bought insurance. So it was money well spent as I was free to go as all my docs were in order.

Sounds like a good trip. Furthest east I've managed to achieve was Odesa in 2008. Would have liked to have gone further and looped the Black Sea, but time was not on our side.

As wuming did, we bought our insurance on the Ukrainian border (entering from Moldova) which cost us 15USD. Before we left the UK we were advised to take US dollars for border payments in the Ukraine as you get a much more "favourable" exchange rate (same applies to Russia). I remember the chap at the border telling us that it was cheaper to buy insurance for Russia at the same time too, offering us a month's cover in both countries for 50USD. Whether that's true or not, or just his "sales pitch" we never found out as we weren't intending going any further than Odesa. Oh, and for some reason we found in the Ukraine fresh crisp dollar bills go further than "used ones"?

Thoroughly recommend taking in the Transfăgărășan Highway, that is if Romania features in the grand scheme of things.

Done.

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Thanks mate
So much to do and so little time !!
Phil

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