EP5 || Ex’es and Axes – First day in Latvia. Heavy bike, stuck on log.

You are watching episode 5 of my Northern European off-road adventure ‘To Hel and Back’

In this episode I discover what the Latvian TET has up his sleeve. I try to log everything again, but I need to practice my axe skills.

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2021 Yamaha Ténéré 700

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Bashplate by HEPCO & BECKER
Crashguards by HEPCO & BECKER
Foglights by HEPCO & BECKER
Graphics by Motostill

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00:00 on this episode
03:50 today’s plan
08:40 TET Latvia
13:50 Stuck on log
19:05 Beer and tour of Riga

All righty. And good morning from Estonia. Uuuh sorry, fkin hell, take 2! All right. Good morning. And we are in Latvia this the first day she’s all packed, I think strap these down a little bit. Hop across the border back to Estonia,

Because yesterday the weather was shit and I didn’t get any footage. Right now it’s 9 a.m. and we are already firing up the girl who needs gas. So! that is nice. to fire up the bike and the sun shines on your face. Let’s do this at a cool place.

This is all super old. Hasn’t been used since the European Union. I suppose Why are we stopping here? And then I saw the truck and the state of this bridge and this thing is old. You can see things are going pretty slow because today is day nine and it’s already three nights

In Estonia. And basically it’s 220 kilometers. If you cruise on a road like this, we don’t do that. So it takes forever. So today we are going a bit faster than usual, 100 kilometers to get to a tiny place close to Riga. And the idea there, well, this is like very coincidental,

is to meet up with my ex girlfriend. No, not that one. The other one. She is doing the Baltic Camino, which is a thousand kilometers walking Through all the Baltics and it just so happens to be that she wanted to be in Norway as well. So it’s quite coincidental.

And our paths are crossing We’re going to pop in to Riga, find a new water bottle, and then we’ll continue on further on the TET So… new plan wheelie! Tiny wheelie, but still a wheelie. Well, this is a pretty route to the little town mumble mumble this is interesting.

I’m in a very small.. town in Latvia and I’m about to meet my ex girlfriend here. Brabants: there he is. Alright We are on our way to Riga, and I’ve seen more motorcyclists today than in the past week or so. So it is a good day to ride. Think we’ll be in Riga like an hour or so,

And then we’re going to do another hour to find a camping spot. All right. So we are now on the TET just outside of Riga. It’s about 40 kilometers to get to to Riga, about 40 minutes on this route. And we just ran into a guy at gas station. You have whatsapp?

Who said: ‘oeh your bike looks heavy’ there will be some sand coming up, so we’ll take that as we plod along. Has been raining yesterday, of course. see how we get along. He did give me his phone number, though. He has a place to stay where I can pitch my tent in Riga.

So that could be nice. But this is already awesome. Just imagine, like living in Amsterdam and having, like, this kind of forest or lands Juuust outside your doorstep. Maybe this is what he meant With the sand really not equipped for super loose sand.. But if that’s the worst of it, it’s probably not

*TOUCH WOOD* and I think we can manage. *BREATHES LOUDLY* Got myself stuck on a log dude, seriously? we got passed the log all thanks to myself. that light endure.. i met earlier probably hopped right over it. I got myself a little stuck. We fix it, and now we are just.. casually

Plodding along, trying to get into second gear. It’s this one, I think and there we almost went oeh thats a lotta sand. to stay out of the loose sand. fuck, That was intense. That was rough Getting stuck on that log *stutter* and just like the whole track god damn fun! but very tough.

We just met that guy with the little bike We’re going to have a beer together. And that means… New plan…. EH NEW PLAN WHEELIE that was cute oeh nice Porsche (to the right) You can hear the voice really relaxed. but if it’s like a normal conversation. And then the audio gets recorded.

But it’s not like there’s a camera right there. So after a while you forget about the camera. at least, that’s the idea. And I do these transitions. And it’s like we’re I’m talking about something you see here. And then the audience will be like, wait, we can’t see.

And then im like.. It’s maaagic the transition! Almost everyone is taking pictures just on computers or phones So this is my new friend from Latvia. We met at a gas station today. We just had one beer and then we’re going to camp in his backyard. It does look like a. beautiful

Sunday afternoon here.. in Riga as we bounce along the cobblestones Well, that’s a nice Lamborghini. So this is the Russian embassy. And look what the lovely Latvians have put in front of it That is just brutal I love it. P: And also they changed the name of the street.

To ‘Street of Ukraine’s Indepence’ the light is beautiful