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How much technical knowledge do you need for a World Trip by motorcycle?

To be honest, We didn’t know anything about technical service when we started our world trip in Europe. We were thinking we could learn on the road. On the other hand, it was easy way to start our motorcycle journey from Europe. Because If we need technical service We can find easily 🙂

We want to write our comic experiences which You can have fun and understand that We really didn’t know anything.

GS started to ride from Turkey and We met in Germany. We went together to Holland to get ready for Nordkapp.

Our first day for motorcycle journey to Nordkapp from Holland:

We were almost German border and stopped to buy petrol. Her motorcycle didn’t work again! We have no idea what happened. GS wanted to call her brother to ask. Her brother said that look for insurances. We have no idea where they are. We had guess and open to side. We were just looking them without took our and check they broke our not. Because we didn’t know that J After a while we called a technical service in Holland and They said that This is battery problem. They said that “go to second gear, push motorcycle and turn engine. After work it wait a while.“ Yes, we did it. It worked but engine sound wasn’t good. So, we went to the technical service and learn that the battery was dead. Her motorcycle is second hand and we had to change the battery……

(We were in Africa and a motorcycle had same problem who was in Africa by motorcycle. We said him that He has a battery problem we need push it and after that wait a while to get the battery full, it worked :))

We are in Norway and Time to change oil filter and engine oil:

We never do that before. But GS saw when her brother did. So, First GS changed her oil filter and engine oil. But no way to open his screw to took out dirty engine oil. Screw was stuck and we didn’t have good tools to fix it. GS walked around the village to ask tools and GS found one. We changed two motorcycles oil filter and engine oil almost in a half-day.

(For Africa journey, we have new tools :))

Ferry, my motorcycle doesn’t wan to go anymore:

We were riding on Finland highway. Suddenly, my motorcycle started to jump. I was telling to FS on intercom that “Something wrong! My motorcycle doesn’t want to go, engine will stop soon.” I went to emergency line and stop. He asked me first about petrol. I told him I have 2 draws more. He got surprise because He was using reserve. He looked to the tank and saw zero petrol. He went to look petrol and I understood that Don`t trust what showing my motorcycle for the petrol line.

(In Africa, We just check how many km. we go with petrol)

The Chain is getting big and a lot of noise. No idea what happening:

GS called again her brother to ask what we can do. He send some photos and We learned that we need to take tire bag to tide chain again. We found a Wi-Fi in Tallinn and look some YouTube videos. After there we started to work on it. It took more than half a day. But It was to late we had to change the chain in Poland.

(In Africa, we can control chain a lot and if we need to tide the chain It can take 10 minutes now 🙂 )

Actually, we didn’t have more problems during our 20.000 km ride in Europe. GS wanted to go Istanbul, Turkey before start our Africa journey. Because GS has friends in Istanbul who has technical service and help us to learn technical details for motorcycles and also we can check up motorcycles and modify a little.

We went to `` Ersoy Moto“ in Istanbul. Owner name is Gokhan. We were in his technical service a week. He showed us everything what we need to know and how we can fix our motorcycles on the road. Also, He checked up them. We changed our chains, tires…etc. there. We bought a lot of thing there what we need necessary on the road from him. Also, we went to some store and modified our motorcycle to be more comfortable. All stuff is really cheap when you compare to Europe.

What we have been learning on the road we always like to share. You can find playlist to watch from our maintenance here :

March 25, 2017
How much do we need for the world trip by motorcycles?
We want to go Europe after that Africa by motorcycles but our target is a world trip. It means that no work anymore. How much we have, we need to spend carefully.

Most important question for us “How much money do we need daily?“ And than easily we can figure out monthly money. Also, how many years we can keep going to the world trip. 🙂

I traveled Central and South America for a while. I was spending 35-40 USD daily include all transportations. When two persons traveling an accommodation can be more cheap because you can go more wild camping. We don’t use bus, ferry or plane a lot because we will be on the motorcycles. So, how much I was spending It can be enough for petrol to both of us. Just food will be for two persons. Could be 50 USD per day is enough.

But we didn’t sure about that. We went to Europe trip for 4 months and we spend approx. 55 USD daily. After that, we decided our daily budget cant be more than 50 USD per day for the world trip.

What does include in our daily budget for the trip?
- Visas, Custom Service, Traffic Insurance
- Petrol
- Accommodation
- Food/drinks
- Healthy to go to pharmacy or doctor
- Shopping on the road what we need for motorcycles, outdoor, kitchen…etc.
We saved a little money to spend for something what is necessaries. And not include in our daily budget
- Fly tickets
- Shipping motorcycles
- Kilimanjaro
- Masai Safari
- New Carnet de Passage, passports…etc.
So, easy to calculate now: 50 USD per day for two-person, 1.500 USD per month, 18.000 per year. How long do you want to be on the road? For us, until finish our money. We have been planning to work sometimes on the road. But we don’t know yet where and how.

GS
March 25, 2017
How did we decide to go to the world trip by motorcycles?

After Indonesia trip, we started to talk what we will do for future and how we will live together. At the same time, i was telling him non-stop my dreams, which are, go to Africa by motorcycle; actually go to a world trip, which I have already started, from South America.

In the beginning, he didn’t agree with me go to Africa by motorcycles. Because he never ride motorcycle and also he never interest to ride a motorcycle. But he agreed with me to discover the world.

He also agreed what I told him in the beginning “I have been looking for my home. Somewhere in the world, I am sure that I have a place belong to me. When I see it I can understand and I want to live there.“

We needed to figure out how we will travel. We don’t need to hurry up because it is a big step in our lives. My brother was getting married. So, he came to Turkey to meet my family. Ferry and I didn’t have motorcycles at the moment but my brother has two. He was getting ready to Latin America trip with his wife. He gave us his motorcycles. But I didn’t ride real motorcycle more than 10 years now, how can I ride? I did a little practice and I saw that you never forgot when you learn one time. We got one motorcycle and teach Ferry how he can ride. It passed 2 hours he was making circles and U turns very well.

After 4 hours, he was making very well breaks. 6 hours later, my brother came and he got surprise when saw Ferry. My brother asked me that “I am sure, Ferry never ride before!“ Maybe he never ride motorcycle before but his balance is amazing because he has been cycling since he was 4.

Ferry loved to ride motorcycle. When he was leaving from Istanbul we decided that I am going to buy a motorcycle in Turkey and he is going to get the driver license and a motorcycle. He got his license in 3 weeks and bought motorcycle as well.

Africa is really tough, especially West Africa if one person has started to ride now and other person didn’t ride motorcycle more than 10 years. We don’t need to be crazy right? Go to Europe first. Put a target for you trip, which is North Cape. If we really like and enjoy to ride motorcycle we can go to Africa and make it CapetoCape . If we turn our road to Africa it means for us we can make a motorcycle journey to discover the world!

We traveled in Europe 4 months and made more than 20.000 km. We really enjoyed so much. After that we went to Turkey before go to Africa. Because I know a lot of people who, can help us to get our motorcycles ready to Africa.

We have changed some part of our motorcycles. We went to “Ersoy Moto“ for a week. He teach us a lot technical things how we can fix our motorcycles.

So, our trip was in the beginning go to North Cape. After that we said go to CapetoCape road by motorcycles. Now we are saying that we are in the world trip by motorcycles! How long can we go? Where can we stop? We have no idea. We will see!

March 25, 2017