Mondo Enduro

How it feels

Seven friends ride motorcycles around the world on a tight budget. They camp rough and face difficult roadless terrain in Siberia.

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What happens

Mondo Enduro was a round-the-world adventure motorcycle expedition in 1995-1996. Team members Austin Vince, Gerald Vince, Chas Penty, Bill Penty, Clive Greenhough, Nick Stubley and Mark Friend set off to go round the world by the longest route possible in the shortest time on Suzuki DR350 Dual Sport bikes. Their route took them from London, through Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Siberia; then from Alaska to Chile and finally from Cape Town through Africa and the Middle East back to London. The expedition was filmed and was subsequently made into a 2-part TV series shown on Discovery Travel and Adventure Channel. The greatest difficulties in the expedition came in the Zilov Gap, the 400-mile roadless section in Siberia. The team became bogged down here and eventually ended up taking the Trans-Siberian railroad to circumvent the last 100 miles of the Zilov Gap. As well as a TV show and DVD, the expedition diaries (ISBN 1-904466-28-1) give an account of a round-the-world expedition done on a shoestring budget with rough camping. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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