There are days you should better stay in bed :)
İ left Iğdır around 11 after İ got some Flue medicine for free from a nice Pharmacist - Thanks!
There are two ways - the highway and the "high" way - İ wanted to go through Çilli and took a right after the Jandarma post. Unfortunately the road turned let say "bad" after the first village.
İ decided that 1000m asscend on this road will not happen and took a left into a path to save elevation. Well that İ did! :) but the path was stony to the point where you could no longer bounce form stone to stone.
Eventually İ had to push the bike to the road with a flat back and a lot of time lost...
İ checked both tyres and pulled about 30 odd thorns out of each! Normally that would mean find a car go wherever, find spares - good İ invested in good tyres!! İn the back İ found a tiny hole fixed it and was on the road again (minus one shoe though :)
500 m later the same shit! İ had a spare tube (thanks Stu!) and with that İ got the ride of my life :)
Me on the back of a motorcycle holding on to the seat with my left holding onto the bike with my right speeding up the mountain on a gravel road - Safety first!
Up İ realised my new Arkadash just dropped me and rode back down - Thanks to you man - you saved the day.
The rest of the ride was dusty as they are redoing the road and İ arrived all over in mud, dust and sweat.
But İ have a nice hotel - expect loads of İshak Paşa Sarayı pictures.
İ left Iğdır around 11 after İ got some Flue medicine for free from a nice Pharmacist - Thanks!
There are two ways - the highway and the "high" way - İ wanted to go through Çilli and took a right after the Jandarma post. Unfortunately the road turned let say "bad" after the first village.
İ decided that 1000m asscend on this road will not happen and took a left into a path to save elevation. Well that İ did! :) but the path was stony to the point where you could no longer bounce form stone to stone.
Eventually İ had to push the bike to the road with a flat back and a lot of time lost...
İ checked both tyres and pulled about 30 odd thorns out of each! Normally that would mean find a car go wherever, find spares - good İ invested in good tyres!! İn the back İ found a tiny hole fixed it and was on the road again (minus one shoe though :)
500 m later the same shit! İ had a spare tube (thanks Stu!) and with that İ got the ride of my life :)
Me on the back of a motorcycle holding on to the seat with my left holding onto the bike with my right speeding up the mountain on a gravel road - Safety first!
Up İ realised my new Arkadash just dropped me and rode back down - Thanks to you man - you saved the day.
The rest of the ride was dusty as they are redoing the road and İ arrived all over in mud, dust and sweat.
But İ have a nice hotel - expect loads of İshak Paşa Sarayı pictures.
Iğdır center square
The little detour...
The consequences...
potential dinner...
Ağrı Dağı from the southern side ...
The dusty way to Doğubayazıt
wow,must be tough if you are actually using those tubes! Hope they are more thorn resistant for you than they were for me! ;) Good luck!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures !