Time to Socialize! Overlanders Meet Up in Zambia - EP. 107

Again, how are you? Wow, look at this. I know, right? She's a good girl. How you guys been? You never believe what happened. I actually found all the lenders here in Lusaka. These guys are from, well, I'm gonna tell you where they're from. Ta-da, they are cooking. Elena, where are you from? Everywhere. Everywhere, you know, I was born in Russia though, but that's about it and the rest has been on the road. Yeah, well done and you joined Robert. Robert is on this bike and you guys traveling together for how long? You know, I'm ready to to kill him really, you know, too long. Right. No, traveling with me, you know, yeah, it's not easy. So he's doing a great job, but not killing me. We've been like what, one month, over a month now together. This is alcohol free zone today because we have overdid it. Confess, confess. And this is Robert. Right, Robert, where are you from? I'm from Austria. Yeah, of course, you're on KTM, you must be. What are we cooking today? We're cooking today spaghetti. Perfect. Spaghetti bolognese, Like the easiest thing. How are you enjoying Zambia? It's nice. The bikes. I got it. I'm pretending, pretending to be a woman. This is the only thing I can, the only thing I can cook is an omelette, but it's a hell of an omelette. That's way more than me. Okay, we are ready for lunch. Spaghetti. Thank you so much for inviting me. Enjoy your meal. So for how long you have your KTM? Well, the KTM, I bought the KTM two years ago. In Austria. And where you've been with it? In Australia. I actually I bought it for Australia to travel around Australia. How many K's you've done in Australia? In two months, 19,000 K's. So you went around? No, actually I went through the middle, in the middle straight up. And did you enjoy it? I enjoyed it very well, of course, yeah. Elena, you've been to Australia as well, haven't you? Oh, yes, I have, not on a motorcycle. Did you enjoy it? Yes, yes, swimming naked everywhere. Yeah, it was, it was wonderful. Guys, I just want to ask you this question. So how did you guys meet? I broke his bike. What did you do? Not intentionally though, but I needed to go to, I needed to go to Soussouffle, to the desert and everything was very expensive. So I needed someone to take me there and I broke his bike. He had to come back and yeah, we went together. And you've been riding, you've been riding bodies since. So now where are you heading? To Mozambique. And then who knows? And then, you know, maybe South Africa, right? Yeah, we'll see. The road, you know, the road is, is a mystery. So you go, you go, you go. So nice to meet you. You are the first overlanders I've met in like four months. Well, actually over a year because since I've been back to Africa, you know, in November, I haven't come across any overlanders. So you're the first one. So I'm so pleased that I could meet you. All the best guys. Yes, you too. It was so nice to meet you guys. Yes, me too. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I know. I'm so sad you guys are leaving tomorrow. I thought I'm going to have a chance to hang out with you a little bit longer. Well, um, we can not drink that much again. We weren't drinking today. I swear. Just the juice. Just the juice. No, just the juice today. Just the juice. Yes. Yes. I swear. So long. I'm going to miss you. I'm going to miss you too. Good luck. Look after yourself. Be good. Be safe. Yeah, be good. That could be a problem. All right, so now I'm going to test Robert's KTM And Robert wants to have a go at Chile Sorry, I'm just gonna move it here Grass is very soft. Thank you. Reverse gear Do I need to know anything about this bike? Except for this is the starter Right Here goes adventure Right Start this down there. This one? Yeah. I think it's broken. What? Sounds broken. Sounds broken? Oh, no, sorry KTM Oh, this is light Totally different, isn't it? Completely, hey Your one is lighter, but you don't have the luggage. It's different. It's so yeah Actually, those bikes are the same. Same weight. Almost the same weight. Yeah, but different engine torque is different But you know what I like on the engine if you go on three to four thousand It's very smooth. If you go to six seven thousand, it's like The hell. Yeah, it's really Accelerating is so unbelievable and that's that's really fun, you know, but yeah now you're heavy Look after yourself and until next time. Yeah, we'll be in touch Maybe we'll meet somewhere around. For sure I'll be here around Africa Bye Finally it's time to fix up Chillie a bit so she's due for The service basic service. I'm going to change engine oil and filter and And I hope Moose because that's the name of the mechanic Moose we're going to fix my forks apparently he's Ex-KTM mechanic, so I'm pretty sure he'll he know what he's doing So, yeah, I'm looking forward to fixing that All right, we're nearly there somewhere Here Hello Nice to meet you finally. How are you? All right, and you? Thank you very much for squeezing me in Busy schedule. This is amazing What are these bikes? Well, these are all uh motocross. Yeah, but what are you doing here? You guys still racing? Well, my daughter races But i'm just waiting for the spare because we're gonna be on the weekend we have a race up in copper belt Oh, yeah, you're going all the way there. Yeah, and then uh Have friends and these are what we do is motorbikes. So So this is you just service people's bikes people's bikes. Yeah Every time when i'm servicing my bike I just do like a little interview with the mechanics because I think it's interesting for people to see what you guys You know what services you can find in in africa people think you have you know You're pretty much on your own and you have to deal with stuff by yourself, but it's actually not true This is like a proper proper, you know workshop and apparently, um, you were working for KTM before right? No, my son-in-law for KTM With a gentleman called ray wilson who started off KTM in zambia and then he passed away I think around about 2016 somewhere there and then my son-in-law and ray wilson's wife took over the company Company closed and then we started up our own Thing running the same thing with bikes, but my son-in-law john luke was in it long before I was And then um when we started up all the things went a bit slow because of the corona Then he managed to find a good job in cabway So he basically left me doing the work Running the servicing of all motorbikes And majority of your customers i'm guessing they're enduro riders. You work with local people Yeah, well mostly mx riders which is almost the same thing. Yeah and enduro Yeah combined. Is it big? Yes, it's big it could get bigger it's growing For some time it was It was very dormant, but it seems to be growing now The mx and enduro in zambia and you mentioned your your daughter is racing. My daughter races. Yes, kaley price She's just turned 16 on the 10th. Yeah, and are there a lot of women or girls? We got about seven girls that are all Riding and doing well, that's so nice. I'm, so glad I came here. Thank you so much for this little interview. Thank you very much You reckon we can calculate how how much is this and how much would be in another one for one? Yeah I got it not much. Hey No, not much, but i've got a measuring jug that I normally use here. Okay That's it. Yeah, that was easy So here's your seal there see those scratches there Yes Oh, yeah, I can even now in the daylight. I can see it from this side as well And the thing is that you can feel it. I know You know This one is the second one. It looks much much better Although we do have some scratches, but it's not leaking. So we're leaving it now. We'll be polishing tool. Number one This kaley Hello kaley, nice to meet you I've heard you are a legend In your own bike. So, um, tell me how long you've been racing for? Um, two and a half years two and a half years racing and you when did you start riding bike? Um, two and a half years. Ah 13, but I started on a small monkey bike. So pretty much six months later. You started to race Well done. So what was your first bike monkey and then and then I went on to an 85 ktm Nice and then I got a 135 Yeah, and this is your your bike now, how you find it honda Very nice better than ktm Is it? Yes First time I hear someone saying that Ktm is good like a religion, hey sometimes for some people. Yeah, but that's awesome. Have you been anywhere abroad? No, not yet, but you're aiming for south africa probably, right? That would be a good experience I think for you. Well, thank you so much for this little interview There you go, you're banging it just i'm pushing the ceiling right And then you don't have any sand you don't have any grip yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's soft you don't scratch it And our bike motor takes kick bike is off It's clever. I love that And he made that yeah, he just designed it he did well done Bottle the way to go She's so clean now End of the shoot Thank you, thank you, thank you All right, i'll see you In a couple of weeks when I roll out my tires when they get here. All right. Thank you so much. Take care Until next time. Yeah Let's test her, right? Bye See you friday. Thank you So