Morocco - 3 bikes and other minor troubles

morning has broken..... Cat S again....
time to deal with the GS.
The aubergist told us that there is a guy on the other side of the oued how has a lorry/truck to take the bike.
also, we need a welder (not sure of my vocab here... a guy who attach together pieces of metal).
and the welder is at Msemrir.

Tuesday, 8:00
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how fresh we were !

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let's cross the oued.
not so easy.
not because of the water but because of the many flields there are.

lorry's driver and lorry are in the grey house on the left.

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the beast !
the odometer showed a lot of kms.
but beware, it's its 3 complete rotation.
and the engine is the third.

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4 in a row in the truck.
driver was quite gentle. even if I know that he took a little too much money from me. but I was so pleased he help us that I gave him with pleasure.

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and here was the baby :

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focus on the fork and you'll underestand

after a while, we were back to the auberge. time for a pause. coke, water .....
and let's go to Msemrir to meet the magus

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And Msemrir was at 30 kms...... but with a piste.
inside the lorry, bike hooked with ropes, us trying to avoid the gs to fall, under the sun..... hum.... troubles.....

time : Tuesday 11:11

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12:21

Msemrir with the "mecano". This guy was extremely helpful and very gentle. If you stop by Msemrir, that's simple, they are on "la place du marché", market place.

He helped me a lot. that was very cool.

on the left, u can also see what the welder is doing most of the time when he dont have mindless stupid frenchs trying to ride on the piste with too heavy bike.......

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the welder

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here u can see the fix.
the prof knew what to do to fix the tube so I asked the welder to wait for him.
they worked together and christian saw that the welder knew his job
he did an excellent job as I was able to come back with the GS in France.

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that's it. she's running...... !

Christian took her for a little test ride. some bumps. behave okay.
damper was set on hardest so the fork was a little bit rough but she was running....... she was runnningggggg ! yeeeaaaah !
no cancellation, we can keep going !

oh.... yes, btw, what time is it ?
As we are supposed to be at Marrakesh airport at 22:00 to fetch the girls.....

Tuesday, 14:47, Msemrir......



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la tortue du dadès

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Gorges du Dadès. 15:52. time to eat something.
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It was the first proper meal we had since Sunday Noon.
As we ate bread and drunk coke......
It was 100% pure pleasure.

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