Vodka Odyssey. "Off The Rails" by Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly. [review]

Abstract

Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly don’t so much ride from Moscow to Beijing as squabble their way across Siberia. The twenty-year-old Australians decide to take a year off and bicycle across Russia, Siberia and Mongolia. Just to make it more unusual, they do it on recumbent bicycles, those weird lay-back-with-your-feet-out-front contraptions. Somehow they make it, though not without many problems along the way. Remarkably, despite the arguments along the way, they are still reporting to each other by the end.