2024

05/12/2024

New partner to my journey! Ovoko is an internation company which is an online marketplace where car parts sellers, auto dismantlers, and recyclers meet car dealers, mechanics, and enthusiasts. Their goal is to make 2nd hand car parts mainstream and accessible around the world, while guaranteeing quality and provide easy-to-use return policies. But best part isn't mentioned - Ovoko has a fast-action minded team, and already proven with their swift help for Dakar Classic project. 

03/12/2024

Just before leaving to Morocco for my 2 week rally adventure - I got an offer to become Co-pilot in Dakar Classic category! Karolis Raisys will be a pilot and he had already started preparing 1978 Land Rover Defender for this task. Even my goal is to compete on 2 wheels - this experience will definitely help me along the way. As well - entries for motos are limited for Dakar, so any experience helps to get a spot. At this stage - we have just finished preparing our race car, without testing brought it to Barcelona for technical checks and shipping to Saudi Arabia. All checks passed without issues and one month later we will see our old Land rover in Saudi!

20/11/2024

My first Cross-Country rally - Finished 14th overall! And it was a blast. Camp prepared me very well - same equipment (Stella) was used, similar road book. We had Prologue + 5 stages and I have surprised everyone at the Prologue already - finished 3rd and chosen to open the Stage 1! That was my best luck in beginning by not following others and minding my own navigation. In first stages I was struggling to keep up with big bikes - mine had just 1/3 of power of others, so decided to take calm but well navigated route for my rally. In first 3 stages I was below middle of the field - lack of speed on straights, lack of cooling in dunes made me struggle a lot and I was just loosing time. BUT - I kept it constant, no penalties, all waypoints taken, no crazy navigational errors and most importantly - didn't injure myself or bike. And here we are - finished in 14th overall above many experienced riders! Super happy with my performance and clear mind through hard working week in the desert!

10/11/2024

Nomadas team hosted 1st edition of Rally camp - shortly - a full scale cross-country rally, with real road books, real navigation and real challenges - just without time pressure. As it was 1st edition, only 12 participants competed. For me it was more than perfect - great attention and tips from crew helped me to get into navigation details quickly and during 7 day rally camp. Because there was no time pressure, it was great opportunity to understand which speed should I choose in Rally: drive faster - more navi errors, drive too slow and days will become veeeerry long. As well - I broke my rally tower in day 1, so I had enough time to modify my bike to be totally ready for Addax. Apart bikes - great people attended camp, with some became close friends!

27/09/2024

One week, 5000km from which half was pure Off-road through Pyrenees mountains from Mediterranean sea to Atlantic ocean. I traveled alone and didn't camp - I already had quite some items with me for Rally. Plan was to do this trip, leave bike in Madrid and later continue to Morocco. Journey from Germany to southern Pyrenees was easy, as first few days traveling from sea to Andorra. However then struggles started with a flat tyre, just after repairs rains started and I still had more than 1000km to cover in mountains - eventually it was a real mental test for me, getting soaked, nearly finished tyres just kept sliding on wet mud and visibility wasn't ideal - not what you wish for holiday in Spain... All in all - had lots of seat time, roamed through complete Pyrenees, left bike in Madrid ready for Rally.

25/08/2024

Addax Rally, in which I will be competing in November, has released stages map. More than 1200km of pure desert, most of the stages will purely special stage with almost no liasons. Even total rally distance doesn't look too long, but mostly having only special stages it means a hard working week! Very comfortable feature of this rally - static Bivouac, it means every night will be spent in Merzouga and service teams and all spares won't need any traveling. 

17/08/2024

Long relationships never fails - Liqui Moly Lithuania will lubricate my way to DAKAR :)). Been using Liqui Moly lubricants for at least last 10 years in the hardest conditions like professional drift cars and also Nurburgring rental race car and never had any issue caused by poor lubrication. This would be my go to oil anyway, but I am lucky enough to announce, that Liqui Moly will be sponsoring me and on my way to Dakar I shouldn't run out of quality oils!

11/08/2024

Just after purchasing my first MX bike - Yamaha YZ250F I was eager to test it out. As it was a used motorbike, quite a few hours had to be spent to make sure new-used bike was safe, tho not perfect to go riding and jumping. First training in local track went really well - no crashes, bike didn't cause any issue and I understood there is plenty to learn riding dirty and dusty MX tracks! Jumps were a new thing to me, dirt tracks not - so first training was more of just first understanding what MX racing is about. 

02/06/2024

While Nurburging was closed for the whole week for N24H race - I couldn't resist to take on the trip. This time together with @Sheraszyske driven through mountainous and scenic roads in Italian Alps - from boarder of Slovenia to Lake Como. Was a first longer trip on little Honda and it did everything just great, well apart highways... But @Sheraszyske being him - took his stunt Ninja through all the same rough and sometimes with snow roads.

30/01/2024

Honda dealers were making 1000 euro discount on current stock and I couldn't resist of buying the bike which I had my eyes for a while - became an owner of new Honda CRF300 Rally! I knew upfront that suspension will need an upgrade, also it is not as powerful as Orange bikes, but it's a long lasting multi-purpose machine and I am glad I took discounted offer. Modifications straight away were ordered too - better front and rear suspension, tyres, barkbusters and heated grips, as well as crash bars - I know I will drop it on the first day out...