Wild camp after a stretch of fesh-fesh after Ramlia. Download here....
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We head out along a super fluid trail that services a quarry so be aware of meeting the odd tipper lorry as divulged in the briefing......sure enough we meet two or three.....a wave to the driver always receives a wave back. The going is rock so tyres inflated!!!
Riding on I stop with Bob and Bertin to wait on the others and to regroup. After a good few minutes there's no sign so we know something must be up. We make a U turn and after a few minutes we find that those pesky corrugations have taken their toll.... ( Tips and Tricks on Page One of the invite ) . The rest have stopped on them to have a wee peep at the BMW.
The rear frame has snapped where it joins the frame under the seat.
We all help by taking pictures.......
Chubby is happy.......
One upper frame bolt is missing and the other is very bent......spares are produced...
Make shift repairs are made and luggage shared out to lessen the load on the BMW.
Steve fettles too after the corrugations.......
Of course within a short while the locals appear as if by magic....this the manager of Auberge Ouzina....we chat and recall our meeting last year especially about his moto and lack of a chain kit and as usual he invites us for tea.....I explain we'll have no time to stop.
I give him an oil top up and Pete gives him some fuel.....it's always needed in these remote places.
Repaired enough to ride on and we'll source an alloy welder later in Zagora at a garage know.
We'll head on to Ouzina after repairs are effected......one rider signals that his GPS is telling him to go the most direct route and for me to follow him

.......veer left at a metal sign and go to Ouzina.....go straight on if you want to hit some tedious fesh-fesh and long trails in silt.

The GPS can't tell you that.
You will hit fesh-fesh and some silt via Ouzina but certainly not as much.
We approach the dried out river bed to cross at Ouzina...I usually fall off here every year.
I did notice that it was easier to cross this year compared to last as quite a lot of the softer going had gone probably due to the odd flash flood since.
We stop after the crossing and we'll hand out pens and sweets to the kids as they arrive, some barefoot as usual..... I only wish I could give out some shoes but I never have any room to bring any. Every goofy European teenager should have to see this
As usual one rides through the softer going then drops it on the harder going...if it wasn't going to be Bob it was going to be me
Of course, before helping a picture was taken.......
We'll ride on through the village where there'll be a soft narrow dried up river bed to cross, on to the main piste which will be silty here and there and with auberges dotted along same.
.......and on along in the direction of Ramlia
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