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With a burst Jawa Belarusian Vladimir yaret to ten years ago travel around the world. Credit card he has none – and voice nor hearing.


To survive, Vladimir A. yaret had to learn to improvise the hard way. Namely, even as an infant, since he has lost his hearing because of illness. On 5 Born May 1941 in Minsk, Belarusian is deaf and dumb, but towards others incredibly communicative. Turned up like a carnival barker who can keep quiet for a second, he buzzed his F 650 GS and I know that he is with the bike amidst the tourists at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the purest fairground attraction. Who wants to know what it has to deal with all the banners, photos, maps, newspaper articles and countless slips of paper, with which the two intricately lashed hard-sided trolley case and the rest of the BMW are papered, which is beckoned: “Come a little closer, They advocate – the idea is to open “!

Who sees it, amazing experiences? For example, that this man who almost always smiles, since 27 May 2000 without interruption on the road is. Where he has learned some English, which he notes in the form of single words on pieces of paper and then complete with hands, feet the rest of his amazingly well-toned body, his release. Internationally is understandable. He has traveled to 76 countries over the past ten years. Some of them several times. Far more than 300,000 miles he has demolished it. The blue BMW has bought his third trip to the current motorcycle, used during his stay in Berlin in October 2009. And he has plans and goals. His greatest: He wants the Guinness Book of Records. As the first deaf person, who circumnavigated the world by motorcycle?

Who wants to know more, who also learns from his accident? He passed on 23October 2003 in the U.S. state of Illinois, on the way back from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Vladimir had stopped with his 350cc Jawa, a two-cylinder two-stroke engine, with which he had set out three and a half years earlier, in Minsk, on Interstate 74th The truck from behind, he could not hear you come, as well? Whose driver had seen him probably have caught him but even with the trailer?

The impact of the then 62-year-old barely survived. 28 bone fractures, the doctors then diagnosed. With broken legs, pelvis, hip and arm Vladimir spent two months in Saint Francis Medical Health Center in Peoria, Illinois. In the ensuing five-month long rehab met the former marathon runner and triathlete to walk again.

This incredible luck that he had apart from pure survival: Shortly before the accident was Vladimir incidentally a stage of the Iron Butt Rally mitgefahren, the “iron-butt-race”, a sort of motorcycle-marathon through the United States. And it had won friends in the AMA, the American Motorcyclist Association were active. They jumped in for him now, organized a fund-raising over the Internet, ensure that the giant hospital costs were paid for Vladimir.

About the AMA initiative, a motorcycle dealer from Chicago on the fate of the world bustles with White Russians had become aware that allowed him to continue his trip after all. “As a businessman, I could not afford to, but when I met Vladimir yaret, I knew what I had to do,” Bill Kautz dealer is in an article in the AMA Association journal cited. During a party at his shop in 2004 gave Bill the White Russians, a yellow BMW F 650 GS, over strut down a little deeper-with Givi luggage, top box, and 3000 miles on the odometer.

To quasi again until warm, made to Vladimir with the 50-hp BMW again to the north: In Canada, he lacked even a few provinces, and all 50 U.S. states – Hawaii and Alaska, he had been checked already – made he performed with the same trip yet. Somewhere along the way to Mexico and Belize in 2005, disappeared the Givi trunk, have been replaced by a pair of roller Samsonite, matching color to yellow – in addition to the permanent grin and the thumbs-up from now on forever Vladimirs recognition. Unusual luggage solutions were nothing new for him anyway. As a mechanic in Minsk he had to improvise constantly professionally. And on the Jawa stowed his belongings and was already two in the left and right side mounted boxes and a plastic bag.

Vladimir solves problems with charm. He has rarely failed. About Cuba, where they detained him for three months in prison because of invalid papers? China and Iraq did not even let him enter. And now, while this article is created, it sits firmly in Malta since early December: No visa for South Africa. Even worse, because the BMW has arrived by air freight long been there.