CAMERA Broken....son of a .......

That is right folks,  last night we got into the last city right before you enter into tierra del fuego, called Rio Gallegos. As we rode around looking for a hotel , so we could charge the camera battery,  WHAM! I hit a giant hidden bump in the road, which sent me catapulting in the air and upon landing sent my back ortlieb bag flying into the air at 40 mph. As I watched it tumble over and over , lee lee blocked it from traffic running over it, I thouht, hmmmm,  that isn´t good,  the lense on that camera is like a 1000 $ and oh yeah,  we are here filming a MOVIE.   SON of a BITCH!

 

we found a hotel,  Had a look at the camera and at first glance everything seems fine,  the lens isn´t broken, the body look ok, but when recording and upon playback , you get this funny digital junk everywhere, and it eats tapes now, SUCK SO BAD.  so now we are here in this blasted city waiting on this stupid siesta to be over (nap time for the rest of the world) so the stores will open and we can go buy a new one.  South america hates us.

 

Otherwise , everything is good, and our health is soo soo,  lots of coffee is good for my heart I think.  well I am done,  lee wants to talk.

 

g

 

LEE- 

 

After trying to build grahams engine until 7 in the morning that fateful fisrt day in comodoro, i discovered that on of my tires had been slashed. i final attemp to stop us from finishing our journey, there was a slash mark on the tire that didn´t go deep, and a puncture below it that went straight into the tube. great no spares. patch it up, hole at the valve, too. cant be patched, great. Ride it flat. SOuthward bound we were!!

 

we didn´t get very far until we got lost outside comodoro and picked a windy, sandstorm-of-a-street-corner and try and patch the tube again. G noticed a agv helmet inside a house which means these are moto people.so i knocked on the door and asked if they had any solutions for me. they brought me a tiny little bicycle wheel, 16inch, same as a bmx and slapped it on my bike and we were off. problem solved.

 

Next: ´grahams bike is gonna explode at any minute. He was riding all day with the engine sounding like crap. we tuned all day until he finally siezed it. stuck it. thankfully it was a softsieze and we could fix it. Points replaced. tuned and done.

 

crap, i`ve been on the compudadora for too long now. long story short. everything is ok. i hope. we will be in ushuaia soon.

 

 

Things that happened, that we hate.

 

g´s bike

 

-Rito crank hitting the engine  case

- engine case smaller than most cases

-seized polini

-untuneable bike, constant 4 stroking.

-pinging noise , constant

-blown tailight bulb

-ponts blown, new ones put in.

-wiring harness fell off, caused stress in the high winds

- carb banjo rattled loose

 

lee´s bike

 

-basket fell off while riding

-flat tire, no new tubes, replaced with 16 inch x1 bicycle tube (bmx) wheel.

-Bad stator, wiring solder came apart, new stator installed

- leaking seal, screw it , we running strong

-headlight fell off, reinstalled

-renamed, new man´s maxi aka randy newman(you´ve got a friend in me)

 

the End,  onwards to tierra del Fuego!!!!

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