motorcycle shop there .Very friendly people there,they help us to repair the bike and once in awhile
they bring us turkish tea when we working at the bike ,nice.When the bike was done we ride to Istanbul.That is a big city.They tell us around 17 million people living there.For us traffic was little bit too much, cars and trucks and motorcycle coming from everywhere passing you half meter a way from you.We ride local Harley shop and ask if they can change oil to our bikes and they say it is ok ,come here 10 o`clock next morning.We take hotel nearby the harley shop and ride back to shop next
morning .we wait 2 hours ,Nobody come ,shop was still closed.When we were waitting there ,6 turkish
motorcycle police show up and come to us.Very friendly they shake our hands and look at bikes.
We tell them about our trip and they wish us good luck for the trip.In Turkey motorcycle police drive
like 2 men and one bike.We never seen it before back home.After Istanbul we ride small town called
Kursunlu.Just one night there.In the evening we meet young local boy who very interesting about our motorcycles.He had million questions about the bikes and touching bikes everywhere.We answering
him best we can ,he was speaking turkish and we english.Next generation biker for sure!
5 o`clock in the morning we wake up .Seremony starts at moskeya next to our hotel.They have loudspeakers outside so everybody can hear.After that small town we ride very hard 600km
to Erzincan.Roads was very good ,going between the mountains but side wind was really strong.
We got one email from Dr.Durre S. Ahmed from Pakistan ,she is working for Finland MFA and
tell us that situation between Iran and Pakistan boderline ,specially Pakistan side is very dangerous
and we should not risk our lives,so now we have decided that we are not going to Pakistan.
Here at Turkey when you go to gas station you can`t fill up tank yourself.They do it by themself and
give you receipt and then you go to pay it ,you have 2 more receipt one for yourself and one for
how fill up your gastank,you have to show it and then you can go.When you are in gas station or motorcycle workshop it is very common that they ask you to sit down and they bring you turkish tea for free!Some of these turkish roads at mountains are so steep at down hills that trucks must drive
20-30km/h! Down hills can be many km long.When we ride there 100km/h with our harleys ,we close the throttle and bikes were still running like nothing happends still same speed.Must be really carefully ,brakes can over heat easily.After Erzincan we ride Agri,small town maybe 150km from Iran boderline.Yesterday when we come here some couple have a wedding ,20 cars drive around the centrum and they throw MONEY out from the car,never seen happened before!Tomorrow we try to go to Iran ,this evening we meet one man Maurizio de Biaslo from Italy and he just come back from Iran ,he was there 3 weeks.He said that in Iran there is no internet connections so next up date will
be several weeks from now.Stay strong!Ana and Per
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| Many places at Turkey you can see horses at everydays work |
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| Istanbul motorcycle police come to us and wish good luck for our trip |
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| ADAS MC at east Turkey |
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| Wild roses |
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| River before Agri |
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| Oil changing time at Erzincan |
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| Nice park at Erzincan at night time |
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| Per and Agri water melons |
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| Turkish trike at Agri |
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| Market place at Agri |
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| One turkish horsepower |
