Meeting Adventure Riders in Kenya - EP. 63

You're gonna ruin my shot No, no, no, no, don't go there Yeah, I'm talking to you Only 20 kilometers left of this road So many rocks My rims How are you? What's your name? Is this road going to Lorwalk? Yeah This one? Okay Thank you Come on, come on You're welcome And you, come on Hello Is this the road to Lorwalk? Yeah, this one? You guys got it? The little one didn't get it Who didn't get it? You didn't get it Don't be afraid Is it that one or this one? To Lorwalk? So I need to turn around and then Thank you Good boy, thank you Where is this road? Thank you Oh ----, ----, ----, ----, ---- Okay This looks a little bit nicer No, it's better So pretty Hey How are you? What a surprise You guys coming from Uganda? No You're the first Actually all the landers I met here in Kenya But just like that randomly Hey Hi, I'm Rico Nice to meet you Nice to meet you, hi Hey I'm Armin Kinga Nice to meet you How are you? Good You guys had some mud on the way? Yesterday, yes It was a bit of a Bit of a challenge So where are you coming from? We went to Nanyuki And then we went upwards Along the national park And then we thought we would take a shortcut Towards What's the place? Lake Baringo But it turned out it wasn't the road Okay boys So now time to introduce yourself Hi, I'm Armin from Germany I'm on the road since 3rd of April Three months ago Awesome So you started from Africa, yeah? Yes You shipped your bike to Egypt? Yes No, no, no To Israel Oh, so the same route as me From Salerno to Astor And then I was in Israel Identical routes, yeah Sweet, and you? I'm Rico I'm from Switzerland And I've ridden down from Zurich so far Started on the 17th of April So you're fast Well, I actually took a lot of breaks now In between Spent some time relaxing also in between But I went down the Balkans To Greece Then transferred to Haifa Oh, nice Apparently this is much easier The Haifa It is, it was quite easy And the Balkans are really nice to ride Yeah, for sure I enjoyed Bosnia and Serbia Kosovo Cool, so you guys just met on the road? Well, when we were heading down You probably know Omar Yeah, yeah, of course I texted him, he was helping me With a few things And he said a German guy was just heading like Maybe two days ahead of me And so we teamed up in Aswan To go through Sudan Because of the fuel situation Right, right, right It's a bit easier There's two of you So it gives you some additional security For sure So since then you've been traveling together Or you separate You went separate No, then in Mekele Mekele we separated again Because I went to Danakil And you went directly south And then we met again in Jungle Junction So Now we're traveling again together since Three days Third day And then you're gonna go again You're gonna travel now together? Together to Kitale For sure And I think you're gonna head to Uganda After that I might spend some more time in Kenya Right North of it I don't know yet I'll have to check the terrain And get some local information Sweet Well it was I mean It's so good to meet you guys You don't see many overlanders on the road here Yeah Awesome Let's present the bikes now This is not your bike What are you doing here? Cool We've got some special effects So how do you find your bike on a journey like this? This bike is very, very good It's very, very comfortable But it's too heavy It's too heavy for some roads here For tricky tracks Yes, yes I agree Gravel road with very big stones And very big rocks Muddy passages Yeah, I can tell You've done some mud Yes What you got? It's Kona 701 And how you find it? I love it Perfect bike for this type of trip I agree Not too heavy Big tan Fueled and loaded Maybe 200 kilos So How much fuel you carry? With additional tanks It's 31 liters Wow So what's the range? Between 500 and 600 kilometers Depending on how I ride So it takes a lot of fuel actually It does relatively It's like 5 to 6 liters Okay That's not too bad Cool She's good off-road Yeah, for sure Okay, this is our lineup for the picture Okay Everyone Okay Out of the parking lot Okay So this is the video We can wave Hello Is it Kenyan music? We made it Yes We made it It was fast Space for a tent And we are Nearly set Where are we? Today? I don't know actually What's the name? Eaton We're in Eaton today Camping together With the guys How are you? Good Thank you very much You're welcome You guys have stickers or what? No I have nothing That's weak That's the man And that's your page Are you on Insta as well? What? Are you on Instagram as well? Instagram Instagram, yes, yes Instagram and Facebook Okay I'll tag you then Cheers How Russians would say Zavstretchu Cheers I'm glad I got to Meet you today Yes A little bit of socializing It's awesome It's a great coincidence Yeah, absolutely Show us your pants Proud Bavarian Hold on Proud Bavarian pants And they are Sponsored Pants Show us Show us your logo Logo That's cool Yeah It's there And then What do you do with your AT That's Flash Yes And then this is a Your name tag Yes, my name tag For the beer For beer Perfect Classic beer I think it's the liver No This is the heart No This is what I call Kenyan hospitality Thank you so much Cheers To Kenya That's number one Makes you unlucky I had two Of course I had two Are they Polish? Thank you Thank you, thank you Four Yes, yes He had one, I had two You had at least At least you need to have three Prost Good man That's it Work it, work Yes Love your moves You guys professional, hey You guys are so cool You said this one is from Switzerland Yeah, Switzerland Hello Hi You people He has told me That you've come all the way from Germany With the bikes Yeah Is it not so tiresome? No, it's fine It's fine? Yes But you go and rest Yeah, sure Of course Go and rest Yeah Good This one now How many capacity? 800 Oh That is abnormal Oh Whereas this one just takes a little This is small His one is big That one is so big He has told me 1,200 Yeah, yeah Big bike Okay And then followed by this one That's 700 That one is 700 Now that one And then this one That's fine It is just so powerful Ready boys? Ready Huh? Now where are you heading to? That way Where? That way This way? Yeah I'll see you So I think it will be 9 kilometers Of this But I thought it was next to the main road So are you ready? Hi How is it? Excellent How is it? Slippery So slippery It's heavy with my bike Too easy It's boring A lovely day in Kenya It's Kenya It's Kenya life That's it Well done boys Made it No fault Well done Well done, well done Beer time Now boys Cheers Treat yourself to a beer Cheers How's my hair? Good? Yeah? How's your hair? Good? You ready? Okay, good So it's time to go We've decided to cross the border Together because The conditions can be quite challenging But, yeah Hopefully We've got I think a little bit of gap now It didn't rain all morning So hopefully We'll get to the border There's 30 kilometers to go And then past the border We get another 30 kilometers In rough conditions So, yeah Let's say it's gonna be a good day Might take us all day But might take us just two hours Right? We'll see It'll be fun So, yeah Let's go Too much walking This action shooting Is killing me