Horst is the founding father of this undertaking. For sure he has had a vague idea somewhere in the back of his head since a long time to travel by motorbike through Southeast Asia, china, Tibet, and ultimately into the German homelands. With this vast experience of riding, Horst is a prime adviser for motorbike parts, luggage to take and logistics along the way. Thanks to his good connections to Yunnan, China, we was able to organize this most difficult bit of the journey for us all. Horst´s strong vision of this trip and encouraging spirit has kept the gang well together, even when we thought "it´s not going to happen".
Boris - my favorite man in general and private driver for this trip. When I meet this positive Queenslander in Vientiane he just only managed to get his bike into Laos, riding it in from Bangkok, and he was all about the trip to Germany. Some weeks later I had decided that I didn´t find it cool to let him go on the trip for three to four months, but that I would rather like to spend the holidays together. Easy and fast solution for the ever positive minded Boris. "You just jump on the back of my bike". This man of action will always find a way through for our bikes, even on the smallest path. And his knowledge on repairing bikes will fix many of the technical challenges along the way. 
A truly spontaneous fellow, Simon started to flirt with the idea of joining us on this trip the very moment I told him about it six months ago. And he didn´t hesitate for long to jump at the opportunity of joining i the gang soon later, when we proved to him that we are all quite all right. With his great enthusiasm Simon kick-started into this adventure in the middle of preparations, at a time, when we others were a bit neglectful of further organization. Having managed to get the bikes registered, and having found out that China would already take us 35 days to cross, our minds were drifting off to alternative routes and fear of cancellation, and the trip was still too far away to become concrete. Young Simon gave us new drive.
Conny - that's me, the number one passenger on this trip. It would never ever have come to my mind to ride through China and Central Asia on a motorbike. In Switzerland I never fancied riding, as it is a dangerous undertaking, causing a lot of annoying noise and requires lot of money to get a permit, bike and accessories. Forget all these cons in Laos. Here's the pros: It is the number one vehicle to get out of town and into nature for a day. Much more handy than a car on dirt roads and more comfortable and safe than a mountain bike as you are not the software to squash in heavy traffic, but have best acceleration and agility. And: It will take me by road to Lhasa, a place I always dreamed of visiting. Other pro are all the technical gadgets that we take along on the big ride, especially the GPS-tracking. Happy lai-lai.Manny - or "the man with the truck". We found this adventurous lad via an internet forum, where he declared intentions to drive his transformed MAN-truck all the way from Southeast Asia to Europe. After meeting with him in Vientiane we quickly integrated him into our team and travel all the way through China together with him.
