I am in Ushuaia presently, I have been emailing DakarMoto a few time,, no response.. Anyone use them lately ?
I am looking to ship my bike ( KLR) from Buenos Aires to Miami or the east coat
Any recommendation or contact info
Thanks
Patrick
ridewithpatrick.com

Same story....happened to me last year no respond at all.
Very disappointed...

Safe ride

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so how did you get your bike back home? I send a email back in October etc bus since them nothing? this guy is real ?

And the correct response is the same as it's always been, each and every time someone posts that they've emailed Dakar Motos and not gotten a response. Most recently, this thread (which took 15 seconds to find using the search function): http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...r-motors-90120

Hope that's helpful.

Mark

Patrick

I know very well that sometimes when we travel for so long we can get some sort of “Time Distortion Syndrome”, happen also to me when I have the chance to hit the road for more than a week. We tends to think that all days are the same, the Saturdays and Sundays disappear, as well the public holidays of the places we are crossing. We start to think that everybody else should be working 7/24. And we lost the account of for how long we are travelling. Months could look as just few weeks, and few week fills like a few months.

So, just to call to the true please let me quote what is in my emails files.
You first contact me on Sunday 6th November, not October
We first reply you 2 days later on 8th, then we crossed 2 other emails till your last 2 emails on 26th and 27th January what we reply yesterday after a black weekend for family issues as I explained you in private.

Sorry, don’t take it personal, I just want to enlighten others that we still existing and we are real even when email replies could be a bit delay, we are running crazies to don’t let anyone without the help we can offer.

See you soon!
Ride safe, Ride Far & Regards

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Javier...
Dakar Motos “ ”

Very disappointed of what???

Look at the other thread linked by Markharf, I already responded you there and I’m still waiting for your reply about it… I guess as the others that also replied you…
Im very disappointed…

Looks that you are very lazy for follow links so I will repeat you here part of it


“@Kawazoki: We never received 3 emails from you, just only one. That was on last April 24th Thursday, 24th and 25th was Easter (Pascuas) and then was the weekend that as with all the public holidays here we don’t work (or reply phones or emails) and sometimes try to hit the road as any other biker. We try to have a life too. That just one email was only two lines saying that you were in your “way from Ushuaia to the motoGP and passing Bueno Aires on Saturday 26.03 and wondering if is possible to stay at your place for couple of days and do some maintenance on my DR650”. The Termas de Rio Hondo MotoGP was from the 1st to the 3rd of May and 1200Kms north of BA.
From last Dic 2015 we have moved to other smaller place, staying facilities and self-bike maintenance aren’t services we will be able to provide for a long time by now.
Now maybe you will understand that a late reply to you didn’t had any sense as also didn’t have any sense to says that you have sent many emails when wasn’t like that.”

Also I saw other threads where you was posting, looks that you don’t have anything good to do in this site…. Just to be nice.

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Javier...
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And who are you to make that judgment ? I am glad that I did not fol in your hand concerning shipping my bike back as I haw heard from other that even just for custom release papers you charge 250 to 300 US.
Thanks for answering my Email after 1 year...

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I continue to Brazil...and shipped my bike from Rio De Janeiro to Dusseldorf with Lufthansa for 1200 US

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I really dont want to intervene in the details of this particular discussion other than to tell you of my personal experience with Dakarnotors -

I airfreighted my Honda AT bike to BA from Dubai on 26th October 2016 via Amsterdam and I prior engaged Javier and Sandra to clear it for me at the BA airport weeks before to shipping. they responded to my every email quickly told me exactly what was required and the way that the BOL paperwork should be prepared - they advised me on accommodation in BA then early next morning after I arrived in BA they both met me in the coffee shop at petrol station at the airport and first we thoroughly went through all the paperwork.
After that they had processed for me a personal pass into the security airside of the airport Then both of them went in different directions at quick pace cross crossing the airport several times and swapped me back and forth presenting me at different desks in front of officialdom.
by 2.30 pm my bike was de-crated, custom cleared and I was issued with a pass to exit the airport - I was ecstatic !
I then had a technical issue with my GPS - Javier got on his bike disappeared for an hour and returned with a solution !

Perhaps it was because I dont speak Spanish or that I am not familiar with the workings of airports but I believe that without the assistance of Dakar Motors I would still be in the airport months later !!!

Thank you both Javier & Sandra - i will be recommending you to all the bikers I know going to south America

PS -
I may never meet you again but you and your children are as I said to you both welcome to visit me me either in Dublin or in Dubai

Our experience is the same as Jonno. Javier and Sandra helped my wife and I to clear 2 bikes through customs in BA in late November. They cleared a further 2 bikes for another couple the same day. They were fabulous, particularly Sandra who accompanied us every inch of the way until we were cleared to ride out the gates of the Customs area. The process is exactly as Jonno described.

Once we had confirmed shipping dates, Sandra and Javier were incredibly responsive by email. They were very accurate and precise in explaining what papers etc we needed to take - with their assistance and by following their instructions, the day itself at the airport was much easier.

As regards DakarMotos cost, we paid $250 per bike. Like all things in life, different people will see different values in any service provided. We all have the power to choose. We chose to pay and I never regretted it for one moment. They made the day easy - had something gone wrong it could have significantly affected our trip. Others will choose not to pay. That too is fine, but there's no need to criticise Javier and Sandra's fees. Don't buy their service if it's not for you. We would use them again in a heartbeat.

250 US per bike...to bad at least she could give to you some discount as she was making extra set off papers for a second bike at a same time...but on the other hand it is your money.

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$250 may sounds a lot but the alternative is to spend DAYS what takes Sandra HOURS. Sandra got my bike cleared and un-crated in FIVE HOURS !! Some Irish guys who did it themselves took FIVE DAYS !!!

You may also pay more fees and charges as a tourist unless you can argue your case in fluent Spanish and know the system well.

Sandra knows all the officials and you can usually get away with un-crating your bike and leaving the box behind at the Docks. ( I don't know if that is still the case) Do it alone and you may be told that you need to take the crate away and do it on the road etc. Try organising that...

Also, add up what it costs you to stay those extra days ! Let alone THE STRESS OF IT ALL....

So if you work it all out, it's not really that bad.


Of course, it is possible to do it all yourself.

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@ Kawazoki:

If you see yourself as such a great asset here on the Hubb, why didnt you put your shipping from Rio to Duesseldorf into the shipping database here on HU? Or can you only do two or three line posts?

250 Usd for a custom agent in BsAs is a normal price. Nobody said, that you have to take an agent, you can do it by yourself if an agent is too expensive for you.

I agree with what Javier said: Your posts in the two threads about DakarMotos are useless.

mika

Javier also likes Charlie's Angels and For whom the Bell tolls. If you email him, he'll try not to admit it though.

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