 Good money world! Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. Good morning Bumblebee! Good morning Bumblebee! We're here in the northwest of Mongolia and we camped last night out on the Mongolian steppe. Check this out around us. It was such a peaceful quiet nice camp last night. I think we had the best sleep in days. It was so comfortable. We could have slept here forever. But we have to move on because we are on a mission to reach the Russian border but we've kind of run out of paved road now. So yesterday we started this super difficult dirt track. Okay so we seem to have lost the track. We fell over. This day is just going from bad to worse. We still have a lot more of that to come so let me show you guys the route for today. So we are here and our mission is to continue down this dirt road to get to the town of Hovd where we'll join up with a tarmac road that heads northwest and we're trying to get as close as we can to the border which is here. So maybe Olgi if we do really well. I'm really not excited about it because yesterday we dropped the bike already three times. Very sorry bumblebee. Plus I hurt my ribs. But we have to do it. It's about a hundred miles on this dirt track and then it's about a hundred and eighty miles on tarmac road to reach the Russian border. We don't know exactly how far we can get today but we would try our best. It's already 8.40 and we still have to pick up everything so better hit the road. Let's go. Wow look at this eagle. Amazing. I'm just gonna go to the top of this hill give you guys a view of what is around this area. I can tell you it's pretty spectacular. Check this out. Pretty cool spot to camp. A little camping spot down there. This morning we were passed by a huge goat herd here. There were cows over there. It's a pretty magical scene. Look I think it's a horse or a cow's hoof. Chrissy. All right ready to take on this dirt road? Kind of. Kind of not. But it's got to be done. We break the bike and game over. Yeah look what we did to the crash bar yesterday. Here. Totally bent it back. Gonna have to have that welded when we get to Kazakhstan. Better the crash bar than the chassis though. Hey this you're good. Yeah you're these kids just came to say hello to us this morning before we left. Wish us well on the dirt road. Okay ready. Bye bye. So cute. I wish I would have some chocolate or something but we don't have anything. We don't have anything. All right so here is our road that we're gonna be following. Where is the best part of it? Nowhere really. Nowhere. Probably this one hey. Yeah. Or maybe even on the grass here. GPS says it's gonna be 75 miles down here to reach the town of Hovd. And at the town of Hovd there is a paved road waiting for us. Yes. But it's gonna take us a little while to get there. Yesterday we pushed up to about 30 miles an hour but we also fell off many times. So today I think we're gonna go a little bit slower maybe up to 20 miles an hour. Yeah. Just to keep it safe because there are many patches of sand on this road and it is really soft so 20 miles an hour it's gonna take us probably three to four hours to reach the town of Hovd. I think as well the handling of the bike is different now because we have new panniers and they are definitely heavier than our old panniers. Yeah we also filled up the fuel as well so we're basically at the maximum possible weight right now. Yeah and this is actually not what you want when you hit the dirt road. No. You want to be as light as possible. Yeah. And I think I had as well a lot of food recently. You're at the maximum weight now hey. Anyway we'll just take it nice and easy. I think the priority today is not to fall off. Yes. Like yesterday. Sorry but maybe. It seems to be two different ways. Do you think they're different? I'm unsure. I'm unsure too. You see this road goes up there I can see it on the hill but this road is a completely different road. Oh. So can you check on maps me? Yeah at the moment we are not really on the road. Yeah it's not a very defined road this road it's just kind of one track goes off that way one track goes off that way you kind of have to guess which one is the right way. Right way yeah I don't know. Okay yeah let's just go with this one here for now and see what goes hey. So apparently the road we're on is actually not the road that's on Google or maps me. It looks like we're supposed to be really about a mile over to the right here but this track is sort of heading in the same direction so I don't know I think we'll just carry on down this track and sort of hope they link up a bit later. Yeah. I mean it seems like a reasonable track. Yeah exactly the road is good enough that we said okay let's stay on here for now. There are just so many tracks and we have no idea which one is the right one. I think that the locals just do it like okay I'm gonna head over to that mountain and then I'm gonna go to the left of it and then I'm gonna head to that mountain and they don't really think about specific road specific tracks. No it's just like go wherever you want which is normally really cool. It's cool until you get stuck in the sand that's what I'm worried about. Yes. Keep right in 200 meters. Take the middle of 20 tracks in 500 meters. Oh man. Look there's some horses. Oh yeah. It's nice. Good morning guys. They know where they're going. Maybe let's ask them hey. There it is the main road. It doesn't look on maps me that we are on the main road just yet. Maybe yes maybe not. I have no idea. Oh well still heading in the right direction. Yep. Yep good enough. No one knows which one is the main road. Coming up to a huge herd of sheep and goats. Whoa. Hello guys. Hello. They all run in. Look at their tails. Yeah. Wow yeah they have big fat tails. Oh. Okay yeah yeah they're all thinking let's go that way. Yes be careful there's a little one coming. Yep yep. Run run run run run. Come on stay together guys. Keep together. There are some goats in between as well. Yeah. Cute. Is he waving for us? I don't know. Yeah probably. Oh I will just ask. Hello. Oh England. Yes. You go. Ulan gum. This way. Yeah. Yeah yeah Ulan gum. Yeah just yeah continue continue continue continue. I think they were just wondering if they were going the right way. We made it to the main road. Yeah it's not really a main road though is it look it just looks the same 90 kilometers to go. All right. This road is worse than the one we were just on. It's absolutely terrible. Absolutely terrible. I can't believe it and now for the next 90 kilometers we have to put it along here. What we were on before was at least a little bit more gravel than hard packed than this. It's just a cut out track. Yeah it's really soft but I think this is the reason that the guys ask us like which way which way because they just can't believe that this is the main road you know. But anyway it's an adventure hey. Oh yeah. Mamma mia. Okay so we are 26 miles in now and it's pretty slow going it's pretty tough going. Already time for a break. Yeah I think we've been going about an hour and a half so pretty slow progress. So we're just gonna eat something now. Prepare ourselves mentally for the next three or four hours. So we just checked over the bike and we saw already that our mudguard is loose. So we don't really have this bare screw for it but we have cable ties. But otherwise bumblebee looks fine. Everything holding together just about. We have some cable ties here. Here some. It looks actually that there's some rain coming over there you can see it looks quite dark. It's not gonna hit us. It's not gonna hit us. It'll be fine. Some positive words from Oli. So somebody told me go through it twice if you can and then it holds better. So I'll follow his advice. Okay yeah looks good. Let's see how the cable tie will hold. So first of all of the day our hi. Okay three two one. Gotta put the stand down. Yeah okay thank you. Thank you. Very hot. Yeah yeah. Hot yeah. We swap bike. You this one, we this one. Okay. Okay let me get out of here. Okay that looks good. Thank you. Bye bye. There's always somebody to help us isn't there? Amazing. But like you said yesterday these Moscow motorpanyas just make the whole process so much quicker and easier because we can just like one two three and the bike is totally clear and then we can just anyway that was a very very slow fall in soft sand so we didn't get hurt and bumblebee didn't get any more damage so that's good. Fall number one of the day hey. All right let's see if we can follow him and his tracks you know. Follow his line hey. 29 miles down probably about 45 to go. We were holding it for a while we were like no don't let it fall don't let it fall. I was having my foot down and I was pushing against it but just couldn't hold it. Oh it's too heavy. Once this bike starts to tip there's no way we have enough strength to stop it not with all the gear on you know. Game over. Yeah game over. Here is pretty soft as well though. Oh god. Don't go more in the middle bit. It's actually not too soft here in the middle bit. Terrible corrugation now. Oh my god this road just gets from bad to worse. Seriously. Look how much we're shaking around. Oh my god. It's like whether it's deep sand or you've got some grip but it's just shaking the whole bike loose. It's not easy. Not easy. But the closer I get to the edge like the softer it gets as well so it's like you have to choose between shaky or slidey. Like a spanner? Nothing on me. Maybe a phone? Phone? Hello. All the water? Yes I watered it. My cup. Your cup? Uh huh. Uh huh. Glue. Glue. Yeah and what about the silver tape? This one? This one? Yeah. It's glue. Super glue. Yeah. So you can see it's just a crack here. He's here trying to super glue it. Okay. But I don't know if super glue is going to do it. He could put tape around it. You from? Uh England. England? Yes. You go uh Ullangom? Ullangom. Ullangom. Yeah we hoved. Oh yeah. Yeah hoved yeah. Hot water. Hot water. There's a car coming. Maybe they have something better. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Hello. Yes by motorcycle. Yes. And you from? I'm from Hoved. Oh from Hoved. Okay we're going to Hoved now. Is dirt road all the way to Hoved? No. 45 km is a good road. Yes. After is paved. Oh. So you bought some better stuff. We just had this and this. Okay. Is it good? Yes. Okay. You are almost done. Almost done. Thank you. Thank you. See you. Bye bye. So in other news our cable tie solution didn't work. So Lavi decided just taking off the mud guy completely for now until we can get a better screw in it. We've only done 10 miles since we stopped. Okay. So we just stopped because I heard like a kind of noise and this whole area here is kind of wet with oil. There's oil all in here. It looks like there's a valve here and there's oil coming out of this valve. I don't know why this stuff is coming out there. Yeah I don't know why stuff is coming out there. We have the contact of the guy who rebuilt our suspension. Later on we can send a message over and just say that oil is coming out of the top of the suspension this time because last time we had a suspension issue oil was coming out the bottom. Now it seems to be coming out the top so I've no idea what that means. But anyway we'll send him a message later. Oh no no no no no no no damn it. You hurt my neck. You hurt your neck. You hurt my neck because you landed on my head. Get out my shoe. Your shoe fell off. We can't get out of the panniers properly. It's probably just the oil falling onto the exhaust and saying some smoke is coming out. This just became so sandy. Just just hang on I'll help. It's okay I can do it. If you just press the thing three two one. The price is stuck. I can't use this shoulder properly. Okay we're going to have to just lift it with it. Ready? We're going to try three two one go. Three two one go. Yeah yeah yeah okay so right again. Foot pedals still on. What's going on with this one? Let me try. It must have just been locked in. Look how sandy this is. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous really. It's just really really really annoying because we can see some oil is coming out from the suspension then we can hear a noise all the time like a book. Just rattling hey I think the whole bike is just it's just rattling itself apart. And then we drop it all the time as well you know. It's just not good you know it's not good. Maybe here. Okay so many tires that have been absolutely destroyed on this road. Yeah we've probably passed by like 20 tires left right. We were falling on the first day we were falling on the last day hey. Yeah apparently so. This really is the worst the worst conditions for our bike that you can get. Super shaky and super sandy. Yeah. I can see a river down below. A bridge. Okay. Is it good? Yes. So I don't know we'll see when we get down there but fingers crossed that is the end of the dirt road down there. Okay the bridge is just over there. Please be paved. Please be paved. Please be paved. I don't think me or the bike can take much more of this to be honest. 51 miles we've done today and it's taken us four and a half hours. Oh my god. Okay so what a difference hey what's difference. This beautiful river here with beautiful mountains. Finally I can look around and take in this incredible landscape. Look ahead it looks paint. Awesome. No way. Oh that's awesome. Yes. Okay wait I just got to stop for a minute. Yeah let's get out for a minute for sure. I just want to stop. Yes. Oh that was really really hard 50 miles. Okay so after a little break we've decided that we are going to try and make it to the city of Ulgi because there we have spotted that they have a pizza place. That was the main motivation for us actually to go all the way there. Big pizza of course. It's still three hours away but it's going to be worth it to get there and then when we're there we can also take a room and that means we can have a proper bed and we can have a really good rest tonight and it also means that we'll be close enough that we can go to the border to Russia tomorrow because Ulgi is one hour from the border so that'll put us in a really good place to be able to cross tomorrow morning. The other way around. Whoa everything's so much nicer when you're looking at it from a paved road. Oh totally. I mean it's a terrible paved road but at least it's better than a dirt road. The road is so amazing. It's like totally brand new. It might be incredibly windy but at least it's smooth. Oh this is amazing. Yeah sometimes you can still see the oil. Well look at that. It's raining ahead as if we didn't need anything else today. Now we're going to put all our rain stuff on and prepare for a wet end to the day. Oli. Norisburg. Norisburg. Lavi. England. Germany. Oh Mongolia. Wow. It's got an eagle here. That's insane. Wow what's it name? Wow that's incredible. Ulgi. Yes. Yeah you? Tonbo. Tonbo. Here. Yes. Wow. But here it's cold no? It's snow. Okay. Whoa. You in the boat? Yeah yeah yeah. Three, two, one. Wow that's crazy. I do with yours. Three, two, one. Cool. That's awesome. Wow that's great. One, two, three. Wow amazing. What a beautiful creature hey? He catching a moth? Mouse. Mouse. He's catching mouse. Wow. One, two, three eagle. You have three eagles. Yes. Wow. It's a mouse. Oh it's beautiful. Suzuki. Suzuki. Bye bye. Incredible. Yes we made it to the petrol station. Apparently we had only 19 miles left in the tank. 92. Yeah. 17 litres 80 out of 20 litres. Yeah. Just two litres 20 left in the tank. He's that guy from that petrol station. Bye bye. Bye bye. Oh yes. Wow. It's pizza time baby. Thank you so much. Awesome. Thank you. It is quite wet outside so we are really enjoying it in here. They've got heating on. Yes. Got a giant pizza. The life is good again. It was really tough but now I'm happy here. Five minutes later I'm stuffed. So we've just had a look on Google Maps and there's a couple of hotels which are about five minute rides just around the corner so we're going to check them out and hope that they're not too expensive and hopefully find a nice room for tonight. Good evening guys. We made it. I have been alive. What a day. What a long day. Oh my god. And I thought already we did improve a lot on dirt roads after all this riding. Yeah. You know you hit sand and you're down. Still down. Still down straight away. We fell over loads of times. I'm just glad that we actually got one of them on camera because we fell over yesterday. We fell over a ton of times. Yes. And the whole time I was like when are we going to fall over when I'm recording and then we did and I was like yay. And I'm really really sad with Bumblebee that the suspension seems to be gone. It is starting to get a bit bouncy exactly like what happened before. I think the same issue is starting to happen again. I think we've broken our suspension again. We're going to email the guy who repaired the suspension. We'll see if he's got any advice for us on that. But one thing is good. The Moscow Moto Paniers they're still standing after quite a few falls. Yes. Yeah. And they're really easy to remove if you fall. So I'm really happy about that actually. Yeah. We also decided that we're going to take a day off tomorrow. So much riding recently and then with the last two days how difficult it was to actually get here to the end of Mongolia. Yeah. We just need one day of rest before we carry on. So that's it from 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 we will see you next time.