 our sightseeing tour of Ulaanoday is gonna have to be postponed for a little bit because this morning we have just noticed that we have some oil coming out from our fork here the right fork and you can see that it's a little bit sticky all along here and also that you've got a dark patch here clearly a little bit of oil has been dripping out we only just noticed this this morning I don't know if it's been happening for a long time but we looked it up online and apparently this might just be that there is dirt and dust inside the seal inside the fork seal here which is actually really likely because of course look at the thing it's like totally covered in dirt so it's really likely that dirt has gotten up inside the seal here which is apparently according to YouTube possible to clean yourself now this is not something we've done before but we're gonna give it a go apparently you can separate here the dust cap from the fork with a screwdriver and that gets slid down and then apparently we can use like a card or a little thin thing and we have actually cut this thing out from our garlic and herb pot this kind of is a circular thing so basically we just like this stick that up inside the fork seal spin it round and try to kind of get all the dirt and dust as much as we can out and try and clean up this fork seal and then see if oil continues to drip okay so apparently we can't remove the fender we thought we would be able to get it off quite easily but it's attached here with the brake lines and here as well and this is riveted on and this one which I think is the traction control or is it ABS I don't know so anyway we'll have to just pull the fender as far as we can out the way basically that is as best we can do if you do a close-up inside there you can see how much dirt is in there look at that yeah so basically we just got to clean out this whole area with our little plastic thing and we'll see how well we can do yeah definitely got some dirt on the end of there oh yeah okay my big pieces all right so that dirt is basically inside the fork seal and that's most likely what's causing the leak yeah look at that definitely got some dirt up in there you know my mechanic eh learning new things every day I don't think anybody ever mentioned to us one time about the possibility of dust and dirt getting the fork seals but maybe they did and we just no actually if I remember Ian from Royal Enfield in England he actually mentioned make sure that your folks are clean sorry in good job yeah let's see how it goes hey yeah it's looking good now it's looking good show me the dirt yeah there you go all right yeah always feel so naked without the honey is on the side it's lightweight now that's fine looks good time to rock and roll then yep welcome back to our circle navigation around the globe by motorcycle we're here in the city of Oolano day in Siberian Russia and today we're doing a little bit of sightseeing it's already the afternoon because well for two reasons really the first is that we're a little bit sick and we just laid in bed for ages trying to kind of heal and recover and the second reason is that we had to deal with that fork issue this morning yeah fingers crossed our little cleaning up is helping a lot the idea for today is we're just doing a little bit of sightseeing around the city of Oolano day we'll be visiting a couple of spots the first place we'll be visiting is this cathedral right in front of us I didn't realize it was so close by the way we sort of started our drive and then it's like we're already here St. Odigitlievsky's Cathedral and I'll tell you guys more about that in a minute but the second place we'll be visiting is a Buddhist Datsun which is like a monastery and then the third place we'll be visiting is Lake Baikal the largest freshwater lake in the world so it's going to be a really cool day we're going to start by visiting this beautiful orthodox Cathedral all right so we're just going to go in into the cathedral separately because it's literally just here and that way we can just sort of leave bumblebee all set up with the cameras and everything and not worry about losing anything I'm going to go have a look and tell these guys a little bit about this Cathedral okay so this Cathedral St. Odigitlievsky Cathedral was built between 1741 and 1785 and it's built in the Russian Baroque style and it's a Russian Orthodox church they got these super cool golden towers on the top just looks amazing and actually this building was the first stone building built in the city how cool is that and it was built right next to the River Ude on its confluence with the Selenga River the River Ude is what gives Ulan Ude its name or half of its name anyway I don't know if I can talk very much inside but let's go have a look oh cool look at this I have a camera okay thank you I'm just coming around the front actually just to see if maybe there's a bigger room with an entrance on this side which there might be I don't know but wow it's a pretty impressive structure though hey beautiful white with this blue all along it oh wow it actually looks like the main room it's under construction at the moment just take a quick peek so the moment it looks like actually this main room on the inside is under construction and the only part that you can really enter is the part we went in before beautiful but I got told off for filming but anyway it's really really nice inside really beautiful a lot of gold yeah go take a look yeah there we go first sightseeing in Ulan Ude the Cathedral of Saint Odigitrovsky so we're actually in the center of the old town right now the city was actually founded in 1666 by the Cossacks and the first name of the city was called Odinsky because of its location on the Ude river and it's actually located on the confluence of the Uda and Selenka rivers but it became a really popular trading zone because of its really good location between Mongolia China and Russia but it wasn't until the arrival of the Trans-Siberian Railway here in 1900 that the population like really really exploded the population was only three and a half thousand people in 1880 and by 1939 the population had exploded to 126,000 but of course the Cossacks were the first people to come to this region the first people were called the Everich later followed by the Buryat Mongols which actually still make up a large ethnic group in this state which is called the Buryat Republic so the name was actually changed quite a few times but the modern name Ulan Ude means red Ude and that red is because of the Soviet Union they named it in honor of that and actually here in the city they have a massive statue of a bust of Lenin as well the largest bust of Lenin in the world so the current population of the city is around 437,000 people making it the third largest city in the Far East of Russia behind Khabarovsk and Vladivostok which we visited earlier on this trip look here's another one of those beautiful trucks look at that yeah really cool so yeah pretty cool historical place to visit here in the Far East of Russia oh cool look at this that's Grandin yeah oh I think this might be where the bust of Lenin is actually somewhere around here anyway ah there it is I can see it over there just about look look look there oh yep whoa that's a massive head nice so now we're gonna head to our second tourist destination in the city which is the Datsan Rinpoche Bagshah the Buddhist monastery on a hill where we should get a pretty good view of the city that's it that's the city cool you do get a really good view from up here you can see down there the Uda and the confluence just over there and the other river Selengah is going off this way and so the heart of the city was basically founded on the confluence of those two rivers super windy today because we're up on the mountain here we go through the flags wow amazing Datsan Rinpoche Bagshah Datsan is just the brilliant term for a monastery so this place is effectively a Buddhist monastery and interestingly this whole state is actually a Buddhist Republic so Buddhism is the primary religion of this entire state of Russia so the name Rinpoche Bagshah well Rinpoche means the precious one and Bagshah means teacher in the Buryat language this place is a teaching of the precious lessons of Tibetan Buddhism so this Datsan was established in 2000 with the blessing of the Dalai Lama so it's really cool because in just one afternoon we can see two important religions in this area the Russian Orthodox Church and the Tibetan Buddhism pretty awesome place look at us going to a restaurant and not eating on the side of the road Vegetables are so nice amazing got a really really nice sweet soy sauce on it that's great beautiful what a nice simple lunch of vegetables with some Chia Bata buns and I felt very zen eating lunch next to the Buddhist monastery no that was a really nice place to visit actually nice to see an aspect of Buryat culture here yeah I mean we had so much fun we actually spent a little bit too much time here we are a little bit in the rush to reach late by Karl because it's 83 miles and it will take us about two hours and it's already 5 30 so better hit the road let's go at least in Russia it's really cool because you know always when it turns green here they have a countdown yes five four three two one this state Buryatia is a beautiful state it's got so many mountains and lakes and rivers pretty bad road to be honest it's pretty bumpy I think this will be a pretty good test to see if our front fork is still leaking oil because if that seal is not back to normal then we're going to know about it by the time we get to the lake wow it's such a bumpy road but really charming villages along this road though again like with the little fields that they've all got in front of their houses oh yes we're getting our first views of Lake Baikal wow it is just on the other side of this field I don't know if you guys can see it on the GoPro just yet but in about half a mile we're about to park up in front and then we should get a really good view of this crazy crazy massive lake okay so apparently there should be a road here okay it leads to appear we can check that out according to the map the pier should be just in here wait a second it's okay no close maybe we can ask if Russian where the pier is yeah okay let's ask we saw on the map that there was a pier here is it possible to see one here we are the hat here okay okay that seemed to work I think yeah we were apparently just a little bit wrong we were about to go into a private property when actually the pier should be around here keep an eye on the road but yeah can you see up here no but just go straight here because they said like goes like this you know around okay okay I think he said like sort of around yep yep yep right that goes to the cows or is it always actually in front oh yes there it is can I ride there okay let me go back in a circle does that look all right look at this oh it's massive look at that no problem oh no problem okay good nice and easy oh yeah there's loads of cows here oh yeah so the pier is actually behind their property yeah it's interesting how cool is that hey oh nice there's a load of flies oh my god okay okay okay be careful concentrate on the on the road right I gotta close my visor okay okay okay oh there's something in my helmet wait a minute whoa wow there's a lot of flies here okay no no we're keeping our visors on and down anyway more importantly this lake by Cal well that is hardly a lake is it I mean that just looks like the ocean I mean it's just if you can't see anything it just goes off off into the distance wow that's really crazy no yeah that's absolutely huge Lake by Cal hey credible we finally made it that's crazy I'm so happy so Lake by Cal is the largest freshwater lake in the world and the deepest lake in the world it really is an ocean yeah an inland ocean look at this this is pretty dodgy but anyway yeah it's broken over there okay well we'll go a little bit let's walk on this bit I think for people this is okay I think for vehicles maybe not wow it looks beautiful though very beautiful yeah and another reason why it's even more like an ocean is because actually seals live here the by Cal seal wow yeah can you believe it let's jump over this to this one and let's have a look down okay okay yeah well you can't really see any seals from here anything really dark murky brown wow the water also this also this log is like not very stable not the best look no okay okay let's just walk until the end of this bit at least okay it's such a dark color isn't it yeah wow it's like a really ominous lake actually to be honest I was like when we came the hell was that when we came here I was like oh maybe we'll go for a swim there is absolutely no way that we're gonna go for a swim yeah freeze to death yeah apparently the lake is really really cold I don't know if we should go much further do you want to go a little bit more okay I know it goes a little bit further but I think that's as far as we should go because that bit looks super dodgy like the pier next to us is totally destroyed anyway I definitely don't trust this too much so I think we're okay here this is about as far as we should go this is just absolutely amazing look at this lake it really feels like we're on the coast I'm just so so so happy to be here to see this beautiful lake with my own eyes just doesn't look like a lake wow good job made it Lake Baikal baby yes so I just looked up some info about this lake and it's absolutely crazy because there is five thousand six hundred and seventy cubic miles of water here that's a ridiculous amount of water here it is twenty two to twenty three percent of the world's fresh water and it's more water here than all of the North American Great Lakes combined I mean I can't even fathom how much fresh water that is it makes me thirsty but of course it's also the world's deepest lake and that's why it's got so much water it's one thousand six hundred and forty two meters deep that's five thousand three hundred and eighty seven feet it's also the world's oldest lake because it's twenty five to thirty million years old and it's actually slightly larger by surface area than Belgium sorry Belgium so all in all this is a pretty crazy lake and it's pretty crazy to be here yes but it is gonna get dark in less than two hours and we've got more than two hours to ride back to Oolano day so yeah I think it's time we head back to Bumblebee and hit the road yeah goodbye Lake Baikal goodbye what a place what a place amazing so that's it for us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and if you really really really like our videos you can join us on Patreon the link is in the description below and we will see you next time look at this fork look at that that is completely clear after two hours and an incredibly bumpy road that is looking amazing now I don't want to say it too prematurely but I think we may have fixed it but it looks good it looks really good yes loving it all the mechanics ready beautiful look how many horses they are amazing hey guys wow