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Urs Pedraita is a Swiss motorcycle pilot, adventurer and known for his long distance records.
In 2013 he was the first to traverse the Siberian Taiga with a motorcycle, without a sidecar. A total of 14,400 km from Bern, Switzerland to Vladivostok, Russia in only 37 days with daytime temperatures down to -42 degree Celsius.
His next project was in 2014 when he circled the earth with his motorcycle starting from Bern, Switzerland in only 16 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes.
On February 19, 2015, he and his team planned to ride the motorcycle with an escort vehicle from Zurich, Switzerland to the North Cape, Norway and back in 106 hours. This record attempt failed after 53 hours in Stockholm due to insufficient strength to get back to Zurich.
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