Beside a large collection of old cameras Gregg is a fellow bmw r100gs rider and he had a newer 1989 model. As it turned out he knew that the lability of the airhead is not very big when it comes to the diode board and he had the part i had been waiting for during five days in his garage. What are the odds waiting in nashville for a part and our next host happens to have the part in stock and know a lot about the problem.

Next day we leave helena behind and another couples of enormous farms cross our path. Everything is so big and flat that you lose reference of time and space. You might see a truck approaching which is 10 miles away from you and you come across fields that stretch for more than ten miles. It gives a strange idea and suddenly i realize that is because the trip has finally brought me to an environment which is complety unkown to me. Driving for half an hour before crossing a town i start to think. How unconventient would it be to be stuck here with no gas having to walk to the next house to ask for help. You can probably spend three hours before your back on the road if you know how to fix any issue you encounter. Could i imagine getting a flat around here?? Yes i can because as it seems on this trip i am not able to travel for more than one day without a problem concerning the bike. Today it was a flat tire. And this time i though i knew what to do because i had prepared myself for this. It turns our that fixing a flat is not always straight forward and is not the moment to be cheap and cut the filler in two to safe material the plug will not hold for long and you will strand along the road again. And the CO2 kits? They are crap the vent could not hold the pressure and did not inflate the tire at all. Again there was mitch to the rescue who had brought a mini generator. Which i could directly branche on my newly installed modified cigarette lighter adapter. That i pulled out of an old car.