We had slept very well until the phone rang. It was Hendrik. I had spoken to Hendrik yesterday to let him know we were in town. He was already in UB for a while waiting for parts for his truck.

We first met Hendrik and Katrin in Kazakhstan in Kulsary. Unfortunately his truck had suffered badly from the Kazakh roads.

So we got ready quickly and met with Hendrik outside. Lárisa went in the van and I followed with the bike. We drove outside of the city but in eastern direction this time.

We arrived at a big gate where his truck was located. But there were more trucks. It was a great place with a nice garage as well. Perfect to do the job.

He had other guests as well, Pjotr and Ulia from Ukraine were camping on the site for one day. They were from Ivanofrankovsk, the west part of Ukraine, and travelling on a Dnipro bike. Lárisa was happy to see some fellow country men and talked to them.

In the meantime Hendrik and I got to work. In less than an hour the rear shock was removed. Hendrik really had all tools you could imagine. I was like a BMW workshop here 🙂 We did also some other work. We fixed one of the broken side lights. We cleaned the air prefilter, which was very dirty. The airfilter itself was still ok. The brakes were still ok.

In the meantime Pjotr came by saying they were ready to ride on. We said goodbye.

Another job which needed to be done is tuning the valves. But I will do this job later. So Hendrik came along with some cold beers. Bikes and beers. So we went outside to see our babes. Hey they were making the food already. A nice shastlik was waiting for us 🙂

We sat together during the afternoon and talked about our travels and further plans. Once their truck was finished they would spend time to discover Mongolia further and then proceed probably to Thailand via China. Hendrik and Katrin were very friendly and even brought us home. The traffic was pretty crazy. You need one hour to cover 10km or so. We made a quick stop under the way at Oasis and met Jan again, he just arrived on his bike.

In the evening we prepared Larisa’s pack as she was flying early tomorrow to Belgium.