Here I am after 1 month alone with my motorcycle.
The Last 3 days have been easy day that I've spent in Skopje and Pristina, yes the capital of Kosovo, the country that I thought someone didn't want me to visit. Skopje is a city that really worth a visit. It is really like a Las Vegas and all the colossal buildings seem just fake.
The road to Pristina was very nice near the Border, but then everything turn into flat and it is just a road full of traffic. So I took a road more east that passes near Badovcit lake and I cut straight through Gomnishtë were I had some no mud-no fun under the heavy rain. Actually the road was good with some mud on it, so there was enough traction with an abused mitas e07 aswell. I don't think there is much to say about Pristina, it didn't shock me. After having been in the might and colossal Skopje, all city look poor. I passed the border in Glloboçicë: better road and with no waiting line at border. It wasn't raining so it was a nice ride despite the road was still wet.
I went directly to Ohrid without passing by Bigorski Monastery because it seemed to be raining in this direction. Ohrid is a very nice city, a big fortess on the top of a hill and a huge lake. In Sommer is a common holidays place for Macedonians. I've eaten a Sopska Salad near the lake and then I left for the border with Greece near Bitola.
The road P504 between the two lakes on the national park of Galichica is paved but it is an amazing road climbing up the whole mountain with views on the lakes.
For this part of Greece I had some track of specia stages, but it was late and I wanted to reach Igoumenitsa so that I would have had the whole Sunday for preparing the bike for the next two weeks, so I rode on paved roads. I took the E86 to Kastoria, then Nestorio and to Konitsa where it started to rain hard. Before Ioannina I took the E92 to Igoumenitsa, very nice road. The Mitas e07 proved to be a very good tyre on wet/flooded pavement aswell, I had read a lot of negative comments about them on the web, but as almost always, they they were wrong. I'm really convinced that most of the people that write on forums don't have any idea about riding a motorbike. Rain stopped and I was able to ride on the sunset after a storm, which is always amazing, but the best will always be the one I saw on the Monte Lema with the Gas Gas.
Sunsets are awesome, the only bad part about them is that they are red...better dead than red! With this sentence I'm able to go back to the fake Freedom of capitalism! I arrived in Igoumenitsa with the dark. The city is so small, I though it was much bigger, finding a T63 here will be impossible... I think I will test the abused e07 on the next two weeks through Balkans, a lot offroad awaits us!
Today maintenance and relax, tomorrow morning Filippo and Flurin will arrive with the ferry and we will head to Albania for some no mud-no fun!
I've changed the chain slider, the repaired one has done around 7000 km...impressive engineering work I've done!
The Last 3 days have been easy day that I've spent in Skopje and Pristina, yes the capital of Kosovo, the country that I thought someone didn't want me to visit. Skopje is a city that really worth a visit. It is really like a Las Vegas and all the colossal buildings seem just fake.
The road to Pristina was very nice near the Border, but then everything turn into flat and it is just a road full of traffic. So I took a road more east that passes near Badovcit lake and I cut straight through Gomnishtë were I had some no mud-no fun under the heavy rain. Actually the road was good with some mud on it, so there was enough traction with an abused mitas e07 aswell. I don't think there is much to say about Pristina, it didn't shock me. After having been in the might and colossal Skopje, all city look poor. I passed the border in Glloboçicë: better road and with no waiting line at border. It wasn't raining so it was a nice ride despite the road was still wet.
I went directly to Ohrid without passing by Bigorski Monastery because it seemed to be raining in this direction. Ohrid is a very nice city, a big fortess on the top of a hill and a huge lake. In Sommer is a common holidays place for Macedonians. I've eaten a Sopska Salad near the lake and then I left for the border with Greece near Bitola.
P504 near Трпејца.
The road P504 between the two lakes on the national park of Galichica is paved but it is an amazing road climbing up the whole mountain with views on the lakes.
For this part of Greece I had some track of specia stages, but it was late and I wanted to reach Igoumenitsa so that I would have had the whole Sunday for preparing the bike for the next two weeks, so I rode on paved roads. I took the E86 to Kastoria, then Nestorio and to Konitsa where it started to rain hard. Before Ioannina I took the E92 to Igoumenitsa, very nice road. The Mitas e07 proved to be a very good tyre on wet/flooded pavement aswell, I had read a lot of negative comments about them on the web, but as almost always, they they were wrong. I'm really convinced that most of the people that write on forums don't have any idea about riding a motorbike. Rain stopped and I was able to ride on the sunset after a storm, which is always amazing, but the best will always be the one I saw on the Monte Lema with the Gas Gas.
E92.
Sunsets are awesome, the only bad part about them is that they are red...better dead than red! With this sentence I'm able to go back to the fake Freedom of capitalism! I arrived in Igoumenitsa with the dark. The city is so small, I though it was much bigger, finding a T63 here will be impossible... I think I will test the abused e07 on the next two weeks through Balkans, a lot offroad awaits us!
Today maintenance and relax, tomorrow morning Filippo and Flurin will arrive with the ferry and we will head to Albania for some no mud-no fun!
I've changed the chain slider, the repaired one has done around 7000 km...impressive engineering work I've done!
The repaired chain slider after almost 7000 km...Engineering at its finest!
No comments:
Post a Comment