Romanian tour 11 25 th june 2012
Well what an exciting day we had today it was our rest day.
After a beautiful spread for breakfast we head for the garage to ride the Transalpine road Vic checks his tyre again and discovered that it has a slow leak,6 bikes and 2 pillions head for the first petrol station to refuel and pump up the tyre,then the ride begins .
It is said that the road was built under King Carole 11 and rebuilt by the German troops during world war 2
Matej is leading and we ride through remote villages and it must be market day as people are going about their every day buying of fruit and vegetables, carting water in buckets. The road is very rough to start as we climb the mountain pot holes again we are getting real good dodging them now and swerving this way and that.
As we climb higher we are in the spruce forest and the timber trucks are gathering all the logs,then we get a surprise, the road turns into hot mix .
So we could corner a lot easier and faster the the many switch backs were a riders delight we zoomed up and around the trucks with ease a beautiful ride.
But then a another surprise the road just stops the bridge is not completed , so again we are back in the rough pot holes etc. this goes for about 2kl then surprise hot mix again and away we go again fantastic riding.
We come around a corner and find it blocked by two trucks,one unloading part of a box culvert,there was only a very narrow verge.
Matej rode around on the verge which was about 1 meter wide and half bitumen and half gravel with a 6 inch step no problem for him or Vic or Rozle.
Matej went back and rode Barry's bike through , but G B did not make it and dropped his bike (red hot dirt riders) of course I captured it on camera,
After picking the bike up we head for a morning tea stop .Matej finds a nice shop on the top which was about 1200 meters .
He states that he will go ahead and take some photos of us, and thats the last we saw of him and Suzann.
Rozle is now our leader but from the back as there is only 5bikes he keeps a good eye on us.
The descent of the mountain is back to the pot holes and isolated villages donkeys, cows and goats on the road side.Not to many inhabitants,when we see one they are real old and wrinkled.
One corner Rob nearly high sides as he hits sand on a sharp corner his front wheel slid out and he had to put his foot down recover
We stop for lunch at a truck stop with no more mishaps, coke and trout for lunch ,we are only 37 klm from Sibiu any thing can happen .
We are on a highway and it is bumper to bumper trucks soooo, we overtake them all on a double line going up hill ,Rob is right be hind us , a red and blue flashing light is following us and a loud speaker asked us to pull over
Buggar
The. cop speaks English bugger again .He asked for Robs and Vic's licence so they give him the Australian one, then he asked for their passports , and gave them a lecture about passing on double lines how dangerous it is.He is going to take their licence and they will have to pay a fine to get it back.The fine was 480 lei each . Bugger again .
He asked them to follow him down the road and we can sort something out (bribe) It is very hot about 32deg we follow the police to another pullover and some nice chit chat and he has reduced the fine to 200 lei each and gives them back their licence and passports.Vic sighed some papers ?..?? No documentation was given to him.
We may not get out of Romania as there was no receipt. ;-)
Got back to the hotel with the wallets a lot lighter as we ad to pay there and then
Back in the garage Vic puts a plug in the tyre as it had a nail , he had two attempts to get it right, we shall see tomorrow if it stays up.
Dinner tonight is with Rozle and Pauline and Neil as we have not seen them all day
Well what an exciting day we had today it was our rest day.
After a beautiful spread for breakfast we head for the garage to ride the Transalpine road Vic checks his tyre again and discovered that it has a slow leak,6 bikes and 2 pillions head for the first petrol station to refuel and pump up the tyre,then the ride begins .
It is said that the road was built under King Carole 11 and rebuilt by the German troops during world war 2
Matej is leading and we ride through remote villages and it must be market day as people are going about their every day buying of fruit and vegetables, carting water in buckets. The road is very rough to start as we climb the mountain pot holes again we are getting real good dodging them now and swerving this way and that.As we climb higher we are in the spruce forest and the timber trucks are gathering all the logs,then we get a surprise, the road turns into hot mix .
So we could corner a lot easier and faster the the many switch backs were a riders delight we zoomed up and around the trucks with ease a beautiful ride.
But then a another surprise the road just stops the bridge is not completed , so again we are back in the rough pot holes etc. this goes for about 2kl then surprise hot mix again and away we go again fantastic riding.
We come around a corner and find it blocked by two trucks,one unloading part of a box culvert,there was only a very narrow verge.
Matej went back and rode Barry's bike through , but G B did not make it and dropped his bike (red hot dirt riders) of course I captured it on camera,
After picking the bike up we head for a morning tea stop .Matej finds a nice shop on the top which was about 1200 meters .
He states that he will go ahead and take some photos of us, and thats the last we saw of him and Suzann.
Rozle is now our leader but from the back as there is only 5bikes he keeps a good eye on us.
The descent of the mountain is back to the pot holes and isolated villages donkeys, cows and goats on the road side.Not to many inhabitants,when we see one they are real old and wrinkled.
One corner Rob nearly high sides as he hits sand on a sharp corner his front wheel slid out and he had to put his foot down recover
We stop for lunch at a truck stop with no more mishaps, coke and trout for lunch ,we are only 37 klm from Sibiu any thing can happen .
We are on a highway and it is bumper to bumper trucks soooo, we overtake them all on a double line going up hill ,Rob is right be hind us , a red and blue flashing light is following us and a loud speaker asked us to pull over
Buggar
The. cop speaks English bugger again .He asked for Robs and Vic's licence so they give him the Australian one, then he asked for their passports , and gave them a lecture about passing on double lines how dangerous it is.He is going to take their licence and they will have to pay a fine to get it back.The fine was 480 lei each . Bugger again .
He asked them to follow him down the road and we can sort something out (bribe) It is very hot about 32deg we follow the police to another pullover and some nice chit chat and he has reduced the fine to 200 lei each and gives them back their licence and passports.Vic sighed some papers ?..?? No documentation was given to him.
We may not get out of Romania as there was no receipt. ;-)
Got back to the hotel with the wallets a lot lighter as we ad to pay there and then
Back in the garage Vic puts a plug in the tyre as it had a nail , he had two attempts to get it right, we shall see tomorrow if it stays up.
Dinner tonight is with Rozle and Pauline and Neil as we have not seen them all day
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