Welcomed in by Tobys amigos and friends (at 1.30 am) we enjoyed Pucallpa very much which is seated on the Amazon and this my friends is one massive mofo of a river, bearing in mind we are ONLY at the headwaters or beginning....its gota go right across the island before hitting the sea, the Amazon is 200 km at the mouth!!!.
Our awesome hosts Hugo and Meche
The river ... or at least a very small part of it
We were taken out for lunch to a very nice local place, as they had us as guests at their beautiful home we covered for lunch, we were then taken to the lake house for a relaxing afternoon overlooking the water which was just spiffing after our previous big day out.
The lake
Toby and I relaxing on the swing chairs
Maya also got a new belly full of Belray full syn oil, I did this with the help of my assistant who was a 13 year old boy eager to help.
Two drain bungs, 2 magnets, three filters later his eyes were bulging at the seemingly endless pile of “stuff‘ compared to the simple motos he was used to, all the same he was into it. ... (like this fella ->
)We developed a crowd of about 15 onlookers which was cool, one fello even talked partly english, very nice guy.
With my KTM apprentice at hand it wasn’t too long and we had Maya back together and filled her with fresh Belray Blood, my apprentice had the honours of starting Maya ... the shock horror look on his face with the initial cam tensioner rattle while filling was funny.
With her going quiet in about 1.5 seconds his face lit up with a grin of accomplishment (like this fella ->
)
, then his reward, with Maya up on 4 bars I said to him twist the
throttle, this was met with HUGE enthusiasm, a coupla small flicks his
hand was shaking.With approval to give her a big flick the gathered crowd got bigger, a quick bounce from the top end of revs saw a large blue flame shoot out about 300 mm, this set the new level of excitement and laughter, by this time cellphones were out and vids were being made.
Who would think an oil change could generate such a crowd and create so much laughter and fun.... but there you have it.
Want a moto taxi, there is one or two around so they can be found
We also visited the KTM dealership to get some rear disc pads, again Maya bought the people out of the shop to take photos, even the security guard was in on it
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I was lucky enough to get my photo taken with the hot chicas while Toby
talked business, I felt guilty tho cos my T shirt stunk however this
almost added to the foreigner adventure biker with a dirty 950 moto
grande, so kinda cool in a weird sense. World records, this man is into them and has set them, Richard is his name, really neat guy and inspirational with him accomplishments and upcoming attempts
Time to head back to Huanuco we hit the road with ominous clouds watching us from a distance.
We fueled up on the cheap petrol, Maya full with 38 liters on board and cruising one up and no house and contents she did 5.3 liters / 100 km which gives us a theoretical range of 695 km ... not to bad.
Given Maya was seriously dirty from the previous days shenanigans of bog holes etc the rain was welcome .... then in true Amazon style it just caved in seeing us drop to first gear in places from serious lack of visibility.... talk about a water blasting!!!
Stopping in the gorge on the way back we saw what we had missed at midnight on the way through, it was raining lightly when we arrived then really set in while we were there so the weather was chasing us.
See the truck at the bottom, see the size of the waterfall!!
Sorry for the outa focus but rain on the lens ... excuse for a bad photo
The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful, even when we came back upon the washed out bridge the digger was there cleaning up and it bared no resemblance of the mayhem we encountered that night.
Two young fellas were there “helping” so Toby gave them some bread each which lit up their faces.
The last POI you won't find on Garmin
Home James ... from there easy as apart from seemingly every truck in Peru on the road that night.
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