 a little astronaut thank you bye bye all right rock and roll yeah bye bye beautiful and new super new Airbnb I look stopped already the front one we're having a lot of trouble this morning with this GoPro or not just this morning but like forever it's GoPro on the front because it's like directly attached to the motorbike it's just shaking so much it just keeps restarting it's kind of broken ready to go ready to go let's do it yep good morning guys welcome back to our Guinness World Record attempt to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle we're here in the town of Lago Deje in Georgia and it's an absolutely beautiful little town right next to these crazy forested mountains in this national park behind us the owner of the guest house was so nice she gave us actually a bunch of grapes because they making their own wine so they have like a vineyard somewhere and it was just the picking season and she gave us this perfect this perfect bunch of grapes but more importantly she gave us wine as well because this area of Georgia interestingly is actually one of the oldest wine regions in the world they found evidence the wine has been made here for at least 8,000 years can you believe it 8,000 years so they have a massively long tradition for making wine and now we have some Georgian wine but it is time to hit the road further into Georgia we have a super exciting day ahead so let me show you guys our route for today so we are here and today we're going to be taking this road to visit an ancient monastery before making our way down and across towards Georgia's capital Tbilisi so as well as stopping at an awesome monastery the Aloe Verde monastery we're also going to be meeting up with another moto vlogger so I don't know how many of you guys know Mark travels but we've been in contact for a little while and now it turns out that we are both here at the same time and so it's time to have a dual moto vlogging adventure together yes really cool and he actually is traveling on an electric motorcycle from Berlin and Germany to New Zealand so he's on a crazy long journey and all electric as well that is absolutely amazing yeah so he actually has booked an apartment already and he's been staying in Tbilisi he is going to ride out to meet us today at the Aloe Verde monastery then we're going to go on a bit of a ride together and finish the day back at his place in Tbilisi but we've also got another awesome ride here in Georgia planned together so it's gonna be so cool I can't wait so the first destination is about 60 miles away Google Maps says it will take us one and a half hours it's already at 9 o'clock so better hit the road let's go so whilst we're riding through the beautiful forested mountains on our way to meet Mark and the monastery it's time to tell you guys some facts about country number 29 on our journey around the world Georgia so the area that makes up modern-day Georgia has been home to human-like species since Homo erectus in the Paleolithic era but the first mention of proto-Georgian tribes was from 12,000 BC so 14,000 years ago the country really reached its zenith in the 12th and 13th centuries where they had what they call the Georgian Renaissance or the Georgian Golden Age which actually preceded the Italian Renaissance and during that time there was a huge flourishing of art and philosophy and culture and they built a lot of the beautiful monasteries just like the one that we're going to be visiting today and as I said before they've also been growing wine in Georgia for more than 8,000 years including at the monastery we're about to visit today apparently they make their own wine so if that's the case we're definitely picking up a bottle but due to Georgia's strategic position near the Silk Road in between a lot of trade routes it has been invaded a lot of times including by the Ottoman Empire the Persians the Mongol Empire the Russian Empire and actually they didn't get independence from the Russian Empire until 1917 but then just five years later they were taken over by the Soviet Union so actually they didn't really get their independence until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed so the modern day population of Georgia is 3.7 million people and a third of them live in the capital city Tbilisi the earliest reference to the name Georgia comes from an Italian map in 1320 and no one really knows where the name comes from a lot of people think that it's because of Saint George and actually the Saint George's cross is on the Georgian flag just like the English flag but the most accepted version of the name by scholars is that the Georgian comes from the old Georgian language meaning the land of the wolves but interestingly Georgia is not actually what Georgians call Georgia so they have their own name for the country which is Sakard velo and Sakard velo means land of the Karate people and I think Karate is a central region in Georgia so some interesting facts it actually has Europe's highest mountain range the Caucasus mountains run along the north Georgian border and actually the highest mountain in Georgia is 5193 meters tall which is higher than Mont Blanc it's also home to Europe's highest settlement which is Ushguli and it sits at 2,100 meters above sea level but it's not just a nation of highs because it's also home to the world's deepest cave discovered which is more than 2,000 meters deep crazy stuff the country is also one of the most ecologically diverse and is home to 12 different climate zones from alpine to subtropical and even semi desert in the south wow Georgia seems to be a country with the very rich history can't wait to explore more here it is this is what 8,000 years of wine production makes wow look at this look at these bunches oh god sorry I thought that was spider look at these bunches wow and there's white grapes here look white grapes here very nice alright we've arrived in the area of ala Verdi and the ala Verdi monasteries should be just up ahead but we've got a bunch of people herding their sheep on the road traffic jam oh look at all their tails hello look at that hey yeah here we are the ala verdi monastery that's awesome look hello hello hello hello hello there he is mr. Mark travels nice how's it going nice to meet you well we almost didn't hear you just like yeah it's crazy so this is the bike and your bike is called Eve okay and this is bumblebee nice so bumblebee meet Eve Eve meet bumblebee you two got to be good friends so mark you have to give us a tour of your beautiful motorcycle Eve it's a zero SRF built in 2019 I bought it second hand it has 110 horsepower which is like it's basically 110 horsepower ours has 105 horsepower yeah that is absolutely insane it goes zero to a hundred and three seconds three seconds and you're telling me that you like the whole wheel wouldn't just lift up and the whole thing just really control okay so like you can really put the power on okay okay this is super modern technique you know with the traction control really controlled it's really controlled it's controlled the easiest bike to ride no there's no gears it's just go and stop exactly you have this little motor here and the battery is 14.4 kilowatt hours okay so here's the motor and here's the battery and it's got a belt drive so no chain oiling either I broke one belt already did it snap whilst you're riding okay okay and what happens you just lose power or does it actually do something okay 30,000 kilometers the first belt 30,000 kilometers yeah the manual says 37,000 okay I mean I hear people breaking them a lot because it's a little bit too too small like for the power the bike has and most people do it too tight you have to check regularly that it's the right tension okay so has it got a little bit of oh it's quite tight though no that's to lose I think what they say in the manual is too tight what I feel like just just from hey if anyone's gonna know you're gonna know yeah after almost 30,000 kilometers yeah you have the feeling there's one charger here one charger on the other side and one charger here in the six kilowatt charger three kilowatt and three kilowatt all at the same time yeah three charge and that helps it to charge faster base model comes with the three kilowatt charger premium comes with a six kilowatt charger and then you can add another charge tank they call it with another six kilowatt so you can at the car charges you can charge with up to 12 kilowatts okay so how long at that would it take to charge you up full an hour that's not bad it depends always on the charger do you know like it also is very weather dependent okay when it's cold it charges a little bit slow when it's very hot then it charges usually very fast and can you charge it from like the mains electricity as well I have to sometimes yeah yeah you won't always find charges you know and how long does it take to charge with like a just a regular mains charger four to five hours okay so that's like you plug it in overnight and then you'll still have a full battery in the morning how many times have you had to just ask some random place like a cafe or something on this trip now that I started in Berlin in December it was just once that I had to charge on the way but I wasn't UK before and I had to do it quite quite often because that is the already the second battery the once that before was broken so I couldn't get the range so what's your full range then 200 to 230 kilometers 200 230 how you ride you know in the city you can basically write forever 350 kilometers okay so it's really dependent on the on what you're doing the weather of course you know I started in Berlin minus 10 degree oh wow that was a challenge you know like then you can really feel it like you can only get like 160 or something right can't charge it when it's minus degree you have to make sure that once you ride that you charge it up right away once because if the battery gets cold zero degrees yeah and then that's it you can't I mean it's just like a whole learning curve you know I mean that's why I do it I learned so much on this trip and with the videos people learn a lot about it you know and to be fair like the range is not like a tiny range that you can only go from one town to the next 230 kilometers up to 300 I mean it's still a considerable distance in most of the world this is going to be easily enough to get you from like a whole day's ride what's your longest ride so far on this bike 500 miles that's longer than our longest ride from the Netherlands to Berlin so if anybody thinks that like you're limited with an electric bike of like oh but I can't go far well mark has a longer ride on this bike than we have on bumblebee at least in Europe there's so many charges okay I always tell people if you don't look for them you won't see them okay you know they are very little you don't notice them because you don't look for them you know you look for a petrol station yeah if you look at the map and just charges it do you have like an electric charging station app yeah and not just one every country has their own Turkey was actually quite nice because they had just one big provider yep one charging so you just needed that app and then it's like you know where they all are so but tell me about maintenance what do you have to do like to keep this thing going nothing really the only liquid is the brake fluid so no oil no breaks last forever yep you have to the motor regenerate energy and does it while breaking like if you have your bike in second gear it will stop you yeah we'll recharge the battery while doing it so you don't really use the brakes they last like 20 30 thousand no way easy so and that's just because the engine is breaking the bike a lot more than the disc I'm basically I'm just using the the brakes for emergency or for the last otherwise you just stop the power and it slows just let go of the throttle and then it just no way beginning you're like oh okay okay yeah you're used to it at some point and then it's just the best thing in the world how much does it cost to use the charger in Georgia as a full charge like three euro okay yeah really good Germany or UK is a little bit more expensive okay Turkey was super super cheap yeah yeah I was in Tunisia there were charges as well and they were free no way there are many free charges you as well I only got ripped off in I think it was Austria they charged me like 20 euro for a charge on a charging station but still for like for like a petrol bike that would be quite a normal that would be quite a normal fill up well right anyway I think we should go and visit this beautiful monastery which has been our backdrop the whole time yeah let's check it out so lovely as to wear this super cool dress look at that it's much it quite nicely looks kind of looks it looks pretty good especially with the bandana mark has his camera there look at that we just for a living you know they make their own wine here as well it's actually like a vineyard monastery beautiful just think medical because there was some choir singing going on inside as well which was just beautiful like very calming and very nice yeah this like polyphonic a cappella Georgian folk singing it's beautiful so this is the aloe verde monastery the monastery was built in the 11th century but some parts of it date back to the 6th century and the cathedral we were just in is considered one of the four great cathedrals of the Georgian Orthodox world at 55 meters tall this cathedral was the tallest religious building in the whole of Georgia all the way up until 2004 when the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi was built do not do it off the top post how do you have to do that Tbilisi but yeah it's a beautiful example of Georgian Orthodox architecture plus they make wine here so that's pretty awesome so we've gone into the wine shop because we want to see if we can get our hands on a bottle of holy wine wow no way so what wine did you get so unfortunately we couldn't afford the wine from the monastery because it's like 40 pounds for a bottle that's pretty much our whole daily budget so we bought a wine from the region which is the Badagoni region and actually it has the monastery on the label and this one was only like four or five pounds so I think it's close enough so whilst we're here in the parking lot Mark said that I can have a go on his bike I get to ride Eve this is crazy this is the break you got a foot break so that's the same like that's exactly the same okay so basically do I just twist and go that's it oh my lord wow that's so low like I can actually have my feet completely flat that is absolutely crazy I mean bumblebee must be so much higher than this that's crazy so is it already on no way oh my god it is already on you can't even tell when it's on or off there's it's aid oh my lord oh my god no way it's so unbelievably quiet it is so quiet that's unbelievable oh wow oh no okay all right go on then put it my mode okay so this is everything full power now I don't know okay that's insane oh my lord but it's so fast oh that's really really fast it's really really powerful and I really like how low it is I can just like walk my way around in the circle full of power this what a beautiful place to be doing it as well look at this monastery whoa that's so super fast the way that it just like whips up to like that's so cool and how how quiet it is as well I can almost like hear the nature around and like when it's off it's just completely off like that that's so brilliant so there you go guys look at that maybe something for our next trip all right Mark are now it's ready to hit the road to Tbilisi hey let's do it yes what the hell sweetie we don't need to do that you're crazy wow marks machine has endless power I tell you endless power oh it looks like there might have been a tree fallen over yeah oh he's saying go thank you it's so super cool that we have made a new bike our friend Mark is awesome yeah it's so cool that we could be here at the same time same place and hang out for a couple of days yes amazing so now we have about 60 miles to Tbilisi it will take us about two hours and we have a really really cool mountain pass coming up so I can't wait yep let's do some nice Georgian riding oh my god he's like really going for it wow so we've lost Mark his bike is too powerful we lost him already but I think we are stopping here because we have reached the gombori pass nice I don't know if I can get it there I don't know if I can get up here this is pretty extreme for me I'm gonna give it a go I did it I do that bit first wait a second yes oh my lord I sort of took it in two stages first stage get at the first hill stop take a look around and then reposition myself because I don't think I could make it like all the way around in one go way worse than this around the world I've fallen over too many times but hey not this time a sugary fruit tea cheers thanks mark awesome some nice tea at the top of the path beautiful and it's not raining and I'm really happy about that I just ripped Lavi's mic off accidentally and broke it so we're not gonna have any audio from Lavi for the rest of the ride unfortunately I know you can tune out now look at this winding ahead look at that so looks like we've got an hour and a quarter left 67 kilometers yeah because you're in kilometers yeah I'm calamity okay I switched everything to miles did you I stick with miles because I'm British everywhere because I don't know how to change it you know this bike comes with a reverse you can actually do reverse gear yeah if you pay 200 bucks for it then you can no way oh my god okay yes nice oh yes look at this got a beautiful way down Lavi says very cool I'm gonna give the viewers a transcript of what you're saying Oli is a I'm not saying that the famous Ujama fortress so tell us about the Ujama fortress a long time ago yeah oh oh my lord we're going I think these guys are building it yes we'll stop at the petrol station okay yeah you're gonna fill up at home that's my synchronization coming into the capital of Georgia to bliss see up ahead and I have no idea how far it is to Mark's apartment but we're just following him but it was a really beautiful ride down from the Gomburi pass such beautiful windy forested roads and now we just got a contend with the city and the traffic on our way in oh yeah I forgot you can't talk I was like Lavi's not really saying very much how far are we 16 okay no a little bit but not too much because we're pretty fat already this is it I feel like that's too hard for me to maneuver into there tip towing around I can't do anything I can't even push the bike on my own Lavi has to push me everywhere so here we go this is home home for the next couple of days oh it's nice look at this there's lights oh my god we are living in the future it's gonna be nice that's amazing what a place for the month 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 see you next time