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    GO EAST

    Nov 02, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY: John and Angela Nickolds

    In 1967 Gunnar Draugs of the former USSR stood on the podium of Halstead Club’s International Moto Cross. His non-Russian forename sparked curiosity in an aspiring trials rider and anorak – I wanted to learn more, studied the atlas and wondered...

    Although early 1990s independence made a trip to the Baltic states feasible, it was 2017 before Angela and I finally got there on our 40,000-mile Triumph Tiger 800. There are two options for getting to the Baltics. You can ride the long way through north-eastern Germany, Poland (round the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad) and Lithuania. We opted to take a ferry from Travemunde in Germany to Liepaja,

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