break down

0,4mm the reason why we stuck at least 3 days in aktobe. friendly, green, busy town in the middle of a desert like landscape. next town 562 km.
a whole day we searched for a ball bearing, kugellager. the sixth shop had one 20-42-12. big smile. but the box was emoty. three hours an many drives with our very exited grorgiab taxidriver (speaks georgian and kach, little russian, in his morning job he runs a wodka plant) we found in a backyard a specialist. quick buy of for russion bearings. fast back to the service station where we are alowed to store and repair. ... o,4mm. doesn't fit.
saturda evening.  plan A is to tow 2200km to almaty plan B is to tranport bikes with truck. in almaty we will wait for the spare part. plan c we wait for the spare pars in the desert town and plan E is we first try to enlarge a bearing mechanicaly if this will allow transmission from motor to wheel we start if not we take the train. yes ,there is one 40h to almaty. the receptionist knew that there is a rain station but not, where the trains go to. we found out. so our last backup to arrive 21th in almaty is the train.
what happen? I turned around at a dead end of a long highway to enter a muddy road and laid town the bike. the transmission belt broke. the transmission case open we saw that the bearing also was torn in pieces. we had to tow in a acrobatic action over100km. one cycled towed the other. lot of luck- many bumbs loosed and streched the rope and tore the bikes in all directions.
but today is a day off. we will worry on tommorrow. lets discover the town fuerther. we allready knwo the 5d cinema and the scating ring- yes-ice. there is allso a weeding bridge where every 5 minute on.saturday an other couple is fotographed.