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Wild Camp to Bishkek
Off we go again, my hands feeling better after some more pills from the doc but more importantly I manage a good nights sleep. I follow the van again out of the mountains and luckily we find some tarmac not far along. I take the F800 out for its second run of the trip just to blow the cobwebs away. I'm getting to quite like this bike the throttles a pain but eventually you compensate most of it away and most other bits on the bike work well. It needs another four litres of tank capacity and then I'd say it was the best bike currently available for this type of trip.
Mods needed are
- Fix the throttle
- Increase fuel capacity 4 litres should give a max of 300-340 miles.
- Fix the seat or buy an Airhawk
- Add some supplementary lighting.
- Add some engine and sump guards.
- Heated grips
- Centre stand - No idea why this isn't standard - it ain't a race bike
Sounds like an adventure model to me.
Anyway we continue on to Bishkek in the pouring rain across a couple of passes with stunning scenery but freezing cold when you only have summer gloves and no heated grips. Good roads make this one of the best rides of the trip pretty quick too until Col catches a speeding fine, luckily for us it was only 200 local about 6 dollars, otherwise we'd have been listening to his moaning and sobbing all night. From the first fine all the way into Bishkek the police are everywhere, only stopping real offenders though so we sail through. We find the hotel immediately and guess what it's got a swimming pool Wow maybe we start having fun here. I watched a couple of the lads unload Neil from the truck and he's really hurting it don't look good to me!
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