I went into a Real Riding Mode in Russia | Season 20 | Episode 11

Here the temperature dropped to 10 degrees. Of course I have heated grips on. Ah man, this is beautiful. It is 20 past 8 and I already got almost 300 kilometers. Public transportation is not really pretty though, but probably do the job. Yeah, this was the first gear. The old brake pads are finished. These are the new. What I'm gonna do now, I'm gonna film the whole process now. See you now. This was good. Perfect, number eight is my room. Let me show you what it is. As I said, very very basic. Bed and toilet and shower there. I don't need any more. Important is to be cheap. So go to eat over there and continue tomorrow. Even so, I lock my motorcycle. I never leave the things just like that. And this is actually the toilet. Toilet. And shower. It's all right. Perfect. Good morning. It is 4 30. So I went to sleep around, I don't know, 11. Woke up, pack everything and I'm ready to go. I've got like loud neighbors that woke me early. But anyway, I'm ready to go. So this one of the benefits to travel alone is to start whatever you want. Now, for example, I don't need to wait for anyone. I can start whatever I'm ready. See 4 30. That's all right. 4 30, 4 30. I'll have less traffic. Or maybe not. We'll see. At the moment it's 14 degrees. Last view from Ural before I start descending to Cherabinsk. The roads are built everywhere. You can see a big bridge here and highway will probably go on the top. Yeah, massive project. Massive. Sooner or later it will be done. And this part as well. And they're not the project that started and abandoned. No, I can see the trucks, the cranes, machines, they're working on it. Oh, 10 minutes later I have petrol station. I can stop, wash my face, drink tea, maybe eat something. I'm gonna even fill the tank because I start anyway. Oh man, this might be a beautiful place to visit. If you just know where to go. All of these rivers, all of these green forests everywhere. Here the temperature dropped to 10 degrees. Of course I have heated grips on. Now on 10 degrees I already feel the cold. I can easily have another one layer of clothes, like a t-shirt with long sleeves. But I know that after 3-4 hours it will be hot and I don't want to stop and remove it again. So I can hold half an hour, one hour. It's all right. Ah man, this is beautiful. It is like a gift for so many kilometers without anything. 6.20 in the morning, 13 degrees. I just turned from the main road to find this village or town Sadka that was recommended to me as a beautiful place to stay. The one that I checked the hotel prices and they were too expensive. It is a, I believe, resort town or village. That's why the prices are like that. Probably for skiing, winter season. But it has this beautiful road to enjoy. Another one rewarding view. Oh, let me stretch my legs. Yeah, this is Sadka. Let's go left. All right, let's go right. All right, I can make a connection to the road over there again, Chelyabinsk. Well, this was Sadka. Nice place in the middle of nowhere, in the Ural mountains. Ural actually is not bad at all. Not bad at all. If they only have roads like this. And they probably have here and there. But the main road down there is different. This color is nice. But see the quality of the road. Man, this is very, very raw climate here. Very cold during the winter. Very hot during the summer. And still got this perfect asphalt. Yeah, I can live in a place like this. And here now I can make the connection with the main road again. Chelyabinsk left. All right, this was a nice, nice detour for a while. Let's go straight again. Now I became 16. It's a different story. I start to feel the warming already. Good! Another brand new highway. It is 20 past 8. And I already got almost 300 kilometers. This is the result of the early starts that I have done. And I am out of Ural, which means the temperature will rise. Now it's 19 degrees. It will be probably around 25 later. Yeah, there will be a few days that I will... I'll name it like a marathon days that will ride more kilometers. Because these kilometers need to be done anyway. All right, another stretch of highway here. Chelyabinsk. It's a big city. I'm not going to stop here. Just will go through. Now I need signs Ekaterinburg, Omsk or something like that. But basically it's mostly straight on. Ekaterinburg and Kurgan. These are in my direction. See the sign? So if you just keep going straight on, straight on until you see sign, you'll be all right. Go, another one, straight on. Straight on. Good. Public transportation is not really pretty though. But probably do the job. Yeah, this was the first gear. Back in the traffic game. Direction Kurgan and Omsk. Ah, it was wonderful here in this local restaurant. This guy was actually the owner. He spoke with me here for 15-20 minutes. I ate a really nice dish. I don't know how to describe it to you. Like meatballs rolled with cabbage. And inside was nice. Yeah, wonderful. And the price was 2.7 euros, 3 euros I'll say. So in these places, as I said before, it's always cheap. And of course tasty, tasty. Let's continue now. It is 12.15 and I already got 530 kilometers. It is time for another stop. Refuel the tank, stretch the legs, tea. All right, the old brake pads are finished. These are the new. What I'm gonna do now, I'm gonna film the whole process now. Of changing the brakes on the road. All right, okay. You see, at the edge, just about. Let me now put everything back. All right, it is done. Now the first, the second and the pin. Okay, now it will be a little bit difficult to put the pin back without specific tools and with helmet on my head. But I hope that I will be able to. Ah, now it's all right. Here goes the pin. As you can see, my pin is with a wire, so I don't need to worry about it. I cannot lose it. Manipulation done. Let me check the time. Seven minutes. All right, it could be better if I only have tools with me. Specific tools. But you know, you cannot bring everything with you. All right, these are the old and the new are already there. Operation is successful. 553 kilometers so far and it is one o'clock in the afternoon. So I can easily do more 200 before I look for hotel. I have rear brake. At the moment it's not going to be so good because the brake disc already start to work. But in 50-60 kilometers it will be all right. Kurgan. Oh, I'm gonna have a right turn. Finally, finally after thousands of kilometers. I'm gonna have a right turn. I have to change the direction. Man, let's do it slowly, slowly to enjoy the process. Okay. All right, what a pleasure to turn. 29 degrees. 33. 3.30 in the afternoon. Instead of getting cold, it's getting hot. 34. All right, I found hotel. This one. And it has a yard so I can park the motorcycle in the yard, which is good. See now, storm like a crazy. And my motorcycle is there in the garage. Just on time. Oh, just on time. I got hotel. Here we go. My room. Let me clean the camera. So, such a powerful storm. All right, so this is the room for 12 euros. Of course, now it's like laundry. I came here into the room. Around maybe two hours ago. And you can see what is the situation now. As I said, my motorcycle is over there in the garage. I put it over there because of the heat. The guards actually said, if you want, you can put it in the garage. I didn't know that it's going to rain so hard. Very, very strong rain. I don't want to be outside in this weather, riding. Anyway, as I said, I came just on time. Took a shower. Even slept for about 30 minutes before I took the camera and filmed this video. Anyway, I'm going to relax down on the first floor. There is a coffee or restaurant. Every restaurant in Russia is named coffee, cafe. So I'll go eat something. Internet is good and relax until tomorrow. And I have more 1200 kilometers to Novosibirsk. So I'm gonna split it to two days. Good morning. It is six o'clock. It was raining all night. And it looks like I'm gonna have a clear window for a while. And of course, I'm gonna use it to start riding. They set forecasts for the real rain today. I hope I'll be able to avoid it. But we'll see. Was excellent last night. Excellent. This hotel that I found in last moment, before the rain, was just a great chance. For today, I plan like 600 kilometers. And another 600 for tomorrow. Another day, another long and straight road. Let's begin. It is 18 degrees at the moment. See the fog? Just about. It will probably be very hot later in the day. Ishim. All right. Ishim and Omsk. These are my directions. Oh good. It is time to stop. Here's something to eat. Now instead of eating on that petrol station for 150 Russian rubles, which is 1.50 euros, 1 euro and 50 cents, I'm gonna have four eggs and tea. This was excellent. See where the petrol station is? Over there, I will pay for croissants and tea 5 euros. Here, for four eggs, bread, tea and water, I paid 2 euros. Big difference. So always look around places like this. And you can save a lot of money because it is not one meal. It is not one day. It's many days, many meals. At the end, the difference is going to be huge. All right. Let's continue now on this wonderful road. Another turn. Another turn after 250 kilometers. Omsk. Right. Again, let's do it slowly. Enjoy the turn. 28 degrees. And another one turn. Omsk. All right. Let's do a lunch. Have a look now at this forest. Right and left. All of these are slums. And when it rains, it floods everywhere. And when it's flooding, the trees actually die. And then when it's dry, they go up. And then when it's flooded again, they die again. And it became like a skeleton of trees. So many. Without the water, they will look like this. Like a normal forest. Or this. This is a brand new road going around the town. Direction Novosibirsk. It looks like I'm gonna avoid the rain. It is there. Let's now see how lucky I am. Can I go around all of this without getting wet? Maybe. Maybe not. What a picture, huh? Wow. Nature. I hope it will strike right now. I saw lightning, I don't know, at least 10 times. But not on the video. Come on. Another one. Oh. This was good. When the hours became too much or when the road is not good, I just thanked myself. Well, on such a long trip, you have to find something. You have to find something to distract you from the ride, from the long boring days. Or not exactly to distract you because you have to be concentrated anyway. But something to focus and to keep you doing what you do. For example, now maybe 200 kilometers before Omsk, I've got lunch. And then I was thinking to have one tea. But I said, no, no, no. First, you have to pass Omsk, you have to go through Omsk. And after Omsk, you can give yourself a gift, a cup of tea. So now I already went past Omsk. I saw this scary lightning. And now I can find a place and have a tea. So basically, this is how my days are going. Talking to myself. Convincing myself to something. And so on and so forth again and again and again. It is what it is. What I noticed is that in the last, I don't know, six years. Last time when I was on this road was six years ago. The road was different. It was bumpy with a lot of construction works. Now it's brand new. Perfect. Yeah! Well, it looks like it's going to rain. But I really don't mind. I'm gonna stop, put my rain gear, take off the camera and continue on my direction. Novosibirsk, Pavlodar, straight on. Omsk and Petropavlovsk, go back. Omsk, Novosibirsk, straight on. Okay. This is the hotel. Actually, I was here six years ago with Dima. And as soon as I saw this hotel from the road, I immediately stopped. The price is 14 euros. It has a restaurant down there. So I can eat later. The motorcycle is parked here. But they have cameras. And later from eight o'clock there will be a security guard. Let me show the room. The shower is on the floor. But that's fine. The room is small but comfortable. It has air conditioning which is good because this is the main road. And it will be very noisy during the evening. But now I can close the window. And sleep well. Now I'll relax for a few hours. And after that I'll go down to eat something. And sleep. I just came back from the restaurant. I ate soup, pork meat with cheese on the top, salad, mashed potatoes, juice, bread. And some sweet things too. One I haven't ate. It was just too much. And all of this cost me 4.50 euros. Just unbelievable prices. I am so full now. Good morning. Five o'clock. Another rainy day. Another long day. Another straight road day. Another adventure if you want to say. Whatever. Let's go. The last 700 kilometers to Novosibirsk has to be done. And they will be done.