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jammin  > Africa > 11-05-07 Egypt
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Rolling on the streets of Alexandria. I love the feeling of the first few kilometers in a new country, especially on a new continent. So many new things to process: how do people drive here, do they respect motorcycles, what are the rules of cutting through traffic, how do pedestrians act, etc.
Crawling through traffic and seeing these guys buzz by on a scooter with both of them looking at this strange motorcycle and its alien pilot. Ok, this tells me helmets aren't enforced and you don't really need to see where you're going in Egypt. I would follow them, but I like to give myself a day or two in a new country before riding like a hooligan.
Brave chap for cutting through traffic with his metal cart and just a hand raised.
Hello, ladies. While Egyptians are predominately muslim, they're a bit more moderate than their neighbors in terms of covering up their women. These girls are wearing either a hijab or shayla. A niqab or burka is the full body covering for more conservative people.
We rode around town until we could find a place to park the bikes. Martijn's bike was suffering from an electrical problem (bad rectifier) and since he couldn't work on the bike while at sea, this had to get taken care of right away.
If you subscribe to the 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' philosophy, then going on a bike trip means knowing how to fix most of the problems with your bike. Martijn was prepared with a spare rectifier and he prepped the wires on the ship for a quick job.
That's the rectifier hanging lose. Its purpose is to bleed off the excess current that comes from the engine's generator, before it damages any of the other electronics, so that's why this is an important repair job.
Final connections for a healthy electrical system.
Of course, this whole repair job was going on in the midst of crazy Alexandria traffic and its cacophony of sounds. And we sure drew a lot of attention.
Brave chap for cutting through traffic with his metal cart and just a hand raised.
Brave chap for cutting through traffic with his metal cart and just a hand raised.
Brave chap for cutting through traffic with his metal cart and just a hand raised.
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