We woke up around 8am (7am on local time). Xavier went to the bathroom and I decided to finish my records in the diary.
We went to the bar for the breakfast, but it was closed. We found, that
on Mondays its works from 1pm. We back in to our room, pickup all the
stuff, checked out from the hotel, and went to the motorcycle.
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We push it from garage and begin to start it. It didnt start. We push them for rather long time, but nothing at all. I checked the compression zero! I decided to adjust the valves by my self. We open the valves cover and found that some part of metal ring just hang down from valves axis.
For a moment I forgot about ring and begin to adjust the valves. First
time in my life! So, finally I got something. I found compression! But
what to do with the ring? From my side, I proposed to forget about the
ring and keep on driving.
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But Xavier thought that the ring is very important. He said that without ring the axis can be easily destroyed.
We ask people around where we can find the repair center or workshop. Nobody knows. We decided to call to the Minsk. Before the trip I got 2 phone numbers for Minsk. One - The Ural shop and the second motorcycle club. I called to the shop and of cause they said that they do not have or sale the spare parts. I call to they other phone to the club. The voice there asked me only one question where we got this number. I said: in the Internet. Then the man (his name was Denis) said to recall him in 40 minutes.
After 40 minutes I call to him again. He said that he couldnt found anybody because its Monday morning. He also told the address of one shop in Minsk where we could by some spare pars. I said thank you, than we start our motorcycle and turn back to Minsk. When we enter the city I bought the map of town. I found that we should drive not too far. Our motorcycle completely stopped exactly near the shop! And Xavier failed to start it.
At the shop boy told me that they never sold the spare parts for motorcycle and he dont know how to help us.
The situation was bad. We dont know what to do. I decided to buy some newspapers or magazines, where I hope to pickup some phone numbers of people who can repair our Ural or just help us. I take the bus, found the place with newspapers, bought some of them. But most phone numbers didnt answer or the person was absent.
I came back to Xavier. All this time he has sitting near the Ural.
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I decided to call one more time to the club. Denis was surprised, that we were in Minsk and ask about our location. I also explain to him, that our Ural is dead. Denis proposed to call to the loader to move our Ural, but I said that it was with sidecar and it is possible to attach it to the car.
We wait some time. (At this time Xavier attached the rope to the Ural,
so he can easily detached it). Then the BIG truck arrived. We were VERY
surprised. We were not expected to see this American car here (in Belarus)
and we didnt expect that our rescuers arrived on this truck. There where
2 persons inside and later I understand that one person (most unordinary)
was Mr. Sho and other was Denis Korshak (I spoke with him by phone). They
attached Ural to there truck. Sho, Denis and me sat in to the truck and
Xavier was on Ural.
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We start the movement. After some time I meant, that Xavier show me something by the hand. I understand this that we should keep on driving. But he gesticulates in very strange way. I also saw, that in one moment (when Sho press the gas) the Ural was jump on the other line on the road and it was miracle that we didnt hit other car. I ask to stop immediately.
Xavier was very scared (I can understand him). He also told me that he show by hand that we must stop immediately, and I was so stupider not to understand him. One more problem during the movement he pressed the breakers to keep the rope in tension. And as the result the breaks overheating. Sho said that they coming back to the club, call there for loader and tell the driver to which place deliver us. So, they escape, and we begin to wait while the breaks return in normal condition and when the loader arrives.
While we were waiting loader we were not in a good mood.
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We wait it rather long time, and finally its arrived. We installed the motorcycle on the platform and ourselves we sits in to the cab. Denis informed the loader driver about the final point, so we just talking with driver about life. Driver surprised me, telling that sometimes the company he is working for received the orders to pickup a car in Moscow and move it to Latvia.
We arrived to the building that was a cinema. We installed our motorcycle
on the parking near this building and Denis brings us a film, by which
we covered our machine.
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We took out all our stuff and went to the building. After we went upstairs, where were a Sho-monopoly head office. Sho let us site down in one room (there where a clothes- design studio). We where very tided and stressed. There a lot of people came in to our room and staring on us. But we where very tired and do not pay attention to any body.
We said that we are hungry and somebody ordered a food for us. While we waiting for the food we where sitting on a big divan and after some time we felled asleep.
At one moment very nice girl arrived. She said that here name is Margo
and she wants to interview us. She asked us a lot of questions but we where
not very enthusiastic, because we where tired.
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After Sho finished all his job and after the meeting of all his people at the office he told us that he can drove us to our flat, that his people found for us. They get in touch with some company in Minsk, which provides flats for several days. This is cheaper than stopped at the hotels in Minsk.
We took just our rucksacks and left all motorcycle stuff at Sho office.
We sets in Shos truck with some boys and girls (his most close friends)
and we begin to drive.
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At one place we stopped. Sho told us that here is the meeting point of Desperado club. Its a club where the fans of motorcycles meet. After we stopped we saw several people. Sho told then something like hello. They approach our truck. Sho ask them if they can help us to repair our machine or he should get in touch with most professional person with motorcycles in Minsk Mr. Slayer. And two guys, there names were Kostia Leushkin, he was the president of Desperado club, and Kostia Dergach, he was a mechanic, said that they can repair our motorcycle without any problems. We agreed to meet tomorrow.
After this conversation, we visit the flat where we paid money and peek up the keys from our flat. (This flat was some kind of office). Then we arrived to our flat. Again we found only one bad and Xavier agreed to sleep on the floor. We felled asleep immediately.
(Mr. Sho company: http://www.shomonopoly.com)
