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During our rallye, we did wonder what that 'road' would look like after
only a hint of rain, or <gasp> even snow....) http://englishrussia.com/?p=315 (even the hard/tarmac roads have pot-holes so deep that even the largest Russian semi-military trucks have to avoid them....which means that after rain, with puddles of in-assessible depth, be it tarmac or dirt/gravel, driving them at any significant speed equals plain simple Russian Roulette....) (and without speed, you get stuck on those dirt roads....) (we concluded that the only way to drive such dirt roads after rain would be in the (literal) slip-stream of a truck-driver with *very* up-to-date local knowledge of that road, being able to dream/visualize all those potholes from the dry season....) Recent article in a German 4x4 magazine about the scout-tour for a second rallye that took place this year, Berlin-Shanghai: '....the last 678km east of Irkutsk are worse than the most horrifying African washboard-piste, only bearable by lowering air-pressure....' (1x TLC HZJ78, 1x TLC HZJ-105) -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand > [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] |
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Russian (off)road
I had to laugh at the one pic with the sign showing a man shoveling, here
that would mean men working on road, there it would mean bring a shovel. "Willem-Jan Markerink" > wrote in message . .. > During our rallye, we did wonder what that 'road' would look like after > only a hint of rain, or <gasp> even snow....) > > http://englishrussia.com/?p=315 > > (even the hard/tarmac roads have pot-holes so deep that even the largest > Russian semi-military trucks have to avoid them....which means that after > rain, with puddles of in-assessible depth, be it tarmac or dirt/gravel, > driving them at any significant speed equals plain simple Russian > Roulette....) > (and without speed, you get stuck on those dirt roads....) > (we concluded that the only way to drive such dirt roads after rain would > be in the (literal) slip-stream of a truck-driver with *very* up-to-date > local knowledge of that road, being able to dream/visualize all those > potholes from the dry season....) > > > > Recent article in a German 4x4 magazine about the scout-tour for a second > rallye that took place this year, Berlin-Shanghai: > > '....the last 678km east of Irkutsk are worse than the most horrifying > African washboard-piste, only bearable by lowering air-pressure....' > > (1x TLC HZJ78, 1x TLC HZJ-105) > > > > > > > -- > Bye, > > Willem-Jan Markerink > > The desire to understand > is sometimes far less intelligent than > the inability to understand > > > > [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] |
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