After Jinvali we turn to a mountain road in direction of Akhmeta and 1 km after the first escalation, incidents start happening. There is road repair work in the first 10 km and the road has turned into a wet, brown ice rink. Trying to move on two wheels is further interfered by the escalations and drops.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With each kilometre the situation only gets worse- both \u2018adventures\u2019 start having problems with mudguards. Myself and Osis stop frequently to try and get the mud out, but it doesn\u2019t really help to solve the problem- I can feel my front wheel block and my motorcycle slides another 10 metres forward. I land on my side in the soft, sticky mud. Thankfully, my speed wasn\u2019t much more than 15 km\/h. We get my ride up and assess the damage. Yes, my old \u2018adventure\u2019 obviously hasn\u2019t been made for road conditions like these because of the construction of the front mudguard. The worst thing is that when the front mudguard\u2019s brackets broke off, the brake tube also broke off and that blocked the wheel. We take off the remaining parts and fix the brake tube with plastic connectors and \u2018slide on\u2019.<\/p>\n
After that, Normunds says he can\u2019t take it anymore. I tell him that there\u2019s no point in going back because we\u2019re halfway there, at least that\u2019s what the Georgian truck drivers, which rarely slide by, say. We have two options. The first one- I drive down and if I\u2019m lucky I send them a message. The second one-we wait for a truck that can carry our equipment to come. Normunds calms down and keeps driving. After a moment, Osis feels that something will go wrong soon and takes off his front mudguard.<\/p>\n
After 2 long hours, the muddy clay road is behind us and a rocky road appears in front of us, but the rocky road feels like the best highway. We slowly roll in village Tianeti and there\u2019s a small, shabby repair shop on the side of the road, but for us, this is huge luck. The Georgian experts are quick to help us fix the consequences of the battle with mud. In two hours, I have new mounts and the box which was crooked after the fall, has been straightened out.<\/p>\n
30 km of rocky mountain road leads us to Akhmet, and in Sabue village 7 km from Akhmet, in a beautiful spot, we find a guest house that belongs to a Chechen woman, Iza. The information about Omalo mountain pass is contradictory. Some drivers say it\u2019s open, some say it\u2019s closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The morning will know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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