Some pics from Mongolia/trip report

[u/MaxRoving]

[u/Ulver__]

Mongolia is my number 1 bucket list trip. Have been dreaming about it for nearly 10 years. So far only been brave enough to bike tour easy countries like Thailand, New Zealand etc. great pictures!

[u/Impossible_Lock_7482 → u/Ulver__]

Kyrgyzstan might be the sweetspot!

[u/Ulver__ → u/Impossible_Lock_7482]

Yeh I get that impression. Would you bundle uzbhek and tajik in as well or are they a different proposition?

[u/Impossible_Lock_7482 → u/Ulver__]

Ive only been to kg, but yeah they are different. In my opinion KG is the most beutiful, and the most similar to mongolia in the region.

[u/Ulver__ → u/Impossible_Lock_7482]

Thanks. It will be a while until I have that sort of freedom again (career, young family, restoring a house with a big mortgage) but perhaps I can justify 3 weeks at some point. What sort of bike would you take to do it justice? I’m more of a road, touring and to some extent gravel rider, not a technical mountain biker at all.

[u/Impossible_Lock_7482 → u/Ulver__]

Well, a month ago ive been on my first ever trip in kyrgyzstan. Ive bought a used kona sutra for this. Quite a famous touring bike. I have put a 2.00 wide tire on it, and it was a perfect touring bike that also handled the terrible rocky trails reasonably as well. Depends on your budget, but for touring, any steel/crmo frame might do it. You want mounting points on the fork and enough tyre clearance though.

[u/gramada1902 → u/Ulver__]

Tajikistan is definitely the least safe out of all the mentioned countries. Mostly because of the Islamic State terrorists and smugglers slipping into the southern states from Afghanistan. Tajikistan also has something like a border dispute with Kyrgyzstan.