I managed to get lost in Buenos Aires (two train stations named Florida on two different lines and no one at the stations having system maps didn’t help) for two hours this morning on the day on which I was to bring the bike to the airport for packing for air shipment to Los Angeles. [...]
I awoke to the sound of rain falling on the fiberglass roof. Stiff from yesterday’s marathon ride from Uyuni I entered the hotel’s dining room already full of miners sitting in the half-darkness. Electricity apparently is only available from dusk until sometime in the early morning. Grumpily I accepted the offered breakfast of stale bread, [...]
After leaving La Paz mid-morning I arrived at a hot-springs hotel that had been suggested to me by Phillip (a German driving a Land Cruiser around S.A.) as a way to avoid staying in Oruro (a “shithole” in his words). I didn’t spend the extra $25 to have a room with a private hotspring so [...]
The Pirelli MT-21 front tire that I’ve had on the KLR650 since Houston had warn down so that it was no longer a ‘knobby’ but more a road tire. So with the best intentions I set out in Cuenca today to find replacement tires (the Pirelli MT90 put on in Medellin doesn’t do very well [...]
I took the bike to a second mechanic – an authorized Kawasaki one to be sure about the state of the engine after running out of oil upon arrival in Puerto Vallarta. He revved the engine for a few minutes and then told me it would require adjusting the valve clearance which would stop the [...]
Update: Rolled the bike without starting it down the steep hill to the mechanic a few blocks away. He turned it on, revved it, asked me how often I drive it and then said that the bike’s engine was likely fine but that the engine valves needed to be replaced which is causing the ticking [...]
Leftover aircraft aluminum, bent, drill-pressed, dremmelled, and sprayed with auto underbody rubberized coating. Towtronics (ebay UK) waterproof marine socket. Mounted on the three windscreen bolts. Garmin and Ram Mount
Things Said
August 31, 2010 (9:31) Santiago Chile and arriving in Buenos Aires Hi, Saw that you rode from Santiago to BA. My brother and I want to take an unguided motorcycle...
August 19, 2010 (8:44) How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires great article thank you very much!
July 21, 2010 (7:36) How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires This is great information. Any idea who to contact in Los Angeles since I want to do the same th...