RIDE TO KUSADASI

The much-anticipated ride, to test out our bike to bike radios finally came today, the destination chosen was kusadasi, a sea-side town about 150 miles away. An early start, I was to meet up with Theo at Ortaca, we would then ride together to Mugla to meet up with Boris and Andac.

Notice the ends of the fingers have been cut off from Theo’s gloves, he borrowed the thick winter gloves from a friend, but the gloves were to small for his hands, and hence, the finger tips had to be cut off !!

It’s about an hours ride to Mugla, the town is over 1500 feet above sea level and it gets pretty cold up there in winter. We were pulled over by the police in Mugla for a document check, I have never had a document check take 20 minutes before, it must be Theo’s fault !

All papers in order, we head off to find Boris and Andac.

We had a quick play with the radios, but alas, Boris has not been able to find headsets with the correct ear piece jacks, despite cobbling together adapters etc. his radios will not work properly without the correct jack. The radios are made here in Turkey, so one would be forgiven for thinking that it would be easy to buy the correct jacks etc. here in Turkey….but no!!

With mine being the only functional set out of three, the test was obviously abandoned and a shopping trip now began between here and Kusadasi, to find an electronics shop.

First stop was around 10  AM for breakfast, Boris had made a flask of coffee and also brought along some doughnut type things to eat.

While we were parked I took a couple of photos of the PTT switch, which I mounted on the mirror stem and can reach easily with my thumb,  also photos of  the handlebar brace and new tank pad.

The new tank pad is much larger than the old one, so should help to prevent more scratches on the tank should I ever use a tank bag again.

Off we go again towards Kusadasi.

Andac on his BMW F650.

Theo on his Kanuni GT 250.

Boris on his Honda Africa Twin.

After another stop for ciggies and a look at the map, I thought it would be fun to play with the camera and try for those difficult mirror shots.

I didn’t notice at first, but Theo is stood up on the pegs trying to get in on the shot.

After another hour or so we stopped off at a country cafe for tea.

Riding through the countryside on the outskirts of Kusadasi, it was cotton harvest time.

On the outskirts of Kusadasi was the first of many shops that we called in on to find the correct headset jack, Theo and I were in some deep, deep conversation in the car park about either bikes or monkeys lol.

As you descend the hill into kusadasi, the 13th Century Byzantine castle comes in to view out in the bay.

We parked up on the pavement, Boris and Theo went off walking around kusadasi in search of electrical shops whist Andac and myself sat by the bay drinking tea.

After a fruitless search of Kusadasi plus a neighbouring town we headed back empty-handed.

All the good photos are courtesy of Boris, next trip together I shall have to steal that excellent camera of his !

~ by travelswithmymotorbike on November 15, 2009.