If you don't already know, Vladimir is a deaf-mute from Belarus in the former USSR, who is pursuing a place in the Guiness Book of World Records as the first deaf-mute to travel around the world overland on a motorcycle.

His deafness stems from a blow to the head when he was about a year old.

That was sixty-four years ago.

Most of the information provided here is the result of a long period of hand-waving and face-making which is all I could do to communicate.

This is most like playing Charades.

This is the front of Vladimir's new motorcycle, a BMW f650 provided by Tag Motorsports in Geneva, Illinois, after his previous machine, a Jawa 350, was destroyed in an accident.