We slept late. While Xavier was in the bathroom I updated the records
in my diary. After eating two yogurts that I bought yesterday, Xavier fell
asleep again. He set his alarm clock for local time noon. While he sleeps
I decide to write in my diary.
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At 12:10 local time we go to the bus stop on the street. The bus is full and we find no seats. Exiting the bus we take a taxi to go to the Sho club where we plan to meet Denis and Margo. Denis said that he was not able to get in touch with the servicemen who can repair our motorcycle and that he had to leave. So, we spent a lot of time with Margo and had great conversation with her.
At some point I asked Margo to try to find Denis because I really wanted our cycle serviced. Coincidentally, Denis enters the room! He said that somebody was already looking at our motorcycle.
A young man by the name of Kostia was a mechanic from the Desperado
club. After unpacking the Ural Kostia immediately takes off the valve cover.
I feel nervous about this and suggest we move the cycle into a garage and
not do repairs under the sky!
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Finally after removing other spare part, Kostia agrees to move the Ural into the garage.
We placed the Ural onto a loader and took it to Kostias garage. Later
we learned that this garage was a central location for all Desperado clubs.
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Kostia worked all day on our cycle and broke the cylinder ring!!! I
noticed the Desperado club members present were young people aged about
15 to 21 years. They smoked and talked about everything. At times Kostia
would leave and then return, so we lost a lot of time. In the end of the
day the president of a club arrived. His name was also Kostia, and full
name Konstantin Leushkin. He could speak French, and Xavier was happy to
talk with him. In fact, Konstantin didnt have any influence on club-members
and he didnt done anything to speed up the repair procedure.
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After Kostia (mechanic) broke the cylinder ring he said that tomorrow morning he could find the same ring at the market and that we should be at the garage at 1pm tomorrow.
Saying goodbye to everyone we returned to the hotel via taxi. Immediately
we go to sleep. I gave my blanket to Xavier because he is sleeping on the
floor.
Inside garage:
