Along the Black Sea
Weather was glorious when I got up around 8am. After making a coffee I started working on the bike. Took the rear wheel out, let the air out of the tire so I would be able to change the nut holding the spoke. Took some effort to break the bead of the tire and it was pretty fiddly to get the spoke nut in. Took a little more than an hour to get the bike ready…
Then I repacked my stuff trying to get more of the heavy stuff into the tank panniers as that is one possible reason the spokes broke. However if I think about it - you can take a pillion on the back and I’m pretty sure I’m not carrying more than 60 - 70 kg. I might be completely wrong. Anyway it was 11:30 when I left my little camp spot.
Just made it 5 miles to a small cafe to get cigarettes and chai. I was the entertainment for the town (Abpipasa). A young guy - Recep - translated my story and it was funny if people hear that you are German the next thing is Christop Daum who managed the 1. FC Köln when I was young and was pretty successful managing Fenerbahçe in Turkey. I think I spend an hour in that cafe with endless teas and cigarettes consumed.
Hit the Black Sea at Amasra and oh boy 
the road from Amasra to Inebolu and on afterwards is both the most magnificent and most horrible at the same time. It follows the Black Sea coast all the way. Dipping down into those small fishing villages and then climbs back up onto cliffs in hairpin bends. So lovely you might think, but its the worst, worst, worstest road surface ever! Everything you can imagine - broken asphalt, sand, stones, pot holes, land slides, fresh asphalt (not rolled down yet), construction sites, cows, dogs and turtles (yes turtles). For people in Ireland this will mean something: its like the road to Sally Gap in the Wick low Mountains but worth and so far 150 miles of it. Stopped at a hotel and had dinner. Pretty wrecked and 
still something like 300 miles of this road left to Trabzon. Funny enough no other spoke broke despite the road condition.
Day 22
7. May 2009
Start: near Abdipasa
End: Inebolu, Turkey
Miles today: 145
Miles total: 3032
Odometer: 8994
Have you “sounded” (hit them lightly with screwdriver and hear them singing, should be the same note for all of them) the spokes yet? Maybe you got a couple much tighter than the others… shouldn’t be ofcourse but you never know.
Front will be no problem, but mcsnl is only showing 17’s for the rear… looking at other sources now.
We’re reading the progress tough guy. The 5 euros insurance to cross the Turkey border was funny.
Imagine if you came from Tureky to Ireland instead, the same green paper insurance would have cost you 5000 euros for 3 months. Hey that’s Dublin prices ! We’ll be in touch later on fruit cake. No change here. The weather is bad wind cold and rain and I don’t want to talk about the food in the HP canteen
All the best
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