Basic maintanence in Johannesburg

South Africa. This motorbike is amazing. It needs so little maintanance. Anyway, I received a nice support from World of Yamaha workshop in Sandton, developed modern part of Johannesburg 's wider city center. World of Yamaha includes also shop for motorbikes, boats and music instruments and is owned by Bidvest financial company. So as I am musician I went to see also Yamaha pianos, guitars and other music equipment produced by this amazing Japanese company. Thank you Dyle, Adrien and Poli for your kind help with my motorbike. At the end we just needed to replace old engine oil with new one, the same with oil and air filter. I am ready for Botswana. Life is rad.

 

 

Celebrity on motorbike?

The other day I came out of Pick'n'Pay shop in Linden in Johannesburg. It was just before the dark. There was a white guy standing in front of my motorbike. He told me he saw my motorbike on the parking space and the sticker 'motoafrica.blogspot.com' on it. He told me he is subscribed to my blog for some time and that he read much of my adventures. He said he admires the LITE way of my travel. He is familiar with Wild Dogs, huge south african society of motorbikers.
Really amazing that somebody recognized me on the street, thousands of miles away from my home. Am I a celebrity? :) It's such a small world. Today I've met a beautiful girl named Kelly for the second time in my life.  One year and half ago we've met on the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, 2000 kms away. We've chatted for few minutes and that was it. Since then we have been friends on Facebook. Today when walking in the crowd in Johannesburg we've bumped to each other at Deutsche Schule Beer festival near downtown Joburg. It's such a small world. :)

Visiting Mandela's house

I arrived to Johannesburg one week ago. I flew with Turkish airlines from Ljubljana via Istambul. It was a pleasant flight and I could even had a stop in Istambul for few hours. Istambul is a huge city so I decided to visit just the old part called Sultanahmet. We were hanging around together with Petra who I know from before and her boyfriend Gorazd from my country Slovenia. We met coincidentally on the airplane. Great fun, thank you both for nice moments.

After landing in Jozi I was picked up by coolest friend Joanne.:) She drove me with her car from OR Tamba straight away to pick my motorbike. It was parked at the spot since June 2013. Thanks to Willem it was not rusted as he was spraying it with Q20. Amazing Willem, thank you.

After beeing busy around Jozi for some days, I decided to drive to Soweto this afternoon. I checked Mandela's and Desmond Tutu's house on Vilakazi street. I ate delicous sendvich at Snack Kiosk.

New helmet Shoei Neotec

My previous helmet was Shoei Multitec. She did more than 50.000 kms with me, 37.000 of them in Africa. She saved my head many times. I am staying loyal to her but like king of Swaziland I was tempted by poligamy too.

Thank you Gregor Pavcnik from Ljubljana, Slovenia and Shoei for trusting me and introducing me to the Shoei Neotec, Multitec's younger sister. Although I will never forget the old one, new one feels simply refreshing.

Shoei Neotec

New tyres Mitas E-07

I have to 'Knock on wood' after mounting new Mitas E-07 rear tyre. The previous one (not Mitas) did almost 20.000 kms without any puncture. Thank you World of Yamaha in Sandton, South Africa to show me how to manually replace the tyre on my motorbike. It's really not that simple. Very special thanks also to Janja, Beno and Uros at Savatech company (ex Sava, now Mitas tyres) from my hometown Kranj, Slovenia who are supporting me at my ON and OFF-road trips in Africa and elsewhere.

Panorama Drive, Roodepoort, Johannesburg

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