I am in Holland. The bike is still in Tashkent. The Malaysia Airlines Cargo flight back with the bike has been delayed several times, but hopefully it will arrive back in AMS tomorrow.

My original post was just a post to enquire about that option. As it worked out it was no big deal to get the bike back home, just a lot of patience and a couple of names / phone numbers of the right people to motivate others.

I emailed MotorWorks from Uz, but never received an answer from them. I will call them tomorrow and check what they have. I did not realize they had used wiring looms. I will attempt a repair myself. The problem is not so much the amount of cables that need to be patched (massive), but more so the location of the one end of the damage, real close to the relay box and hard to get to. When fixing it I only want to do so if it can be done right, I do not want to get stranded everytime the patches get wet or get shorted again. I found all the right parts here to do it right. In Urgench I could not even find the right wire, let alone the right tape, or shrink tube, or soldering iron or ...... I know I could just clusterf it together, but I did not want to do so.

It is amazing what a couple of days of peace and quite and a good bed and good weather do to your outlook on life. I am ready to take care of things. Plans are being made to restart the trip some time soon where I left of. I hope that by that time Kyrg will also have settled down, since it, with Tajikistan, were my main targets for the trip.

Thanks all for your suggestions, help and encouragement.

KP

Great to hear it KP ... I thought you were are little more down than you needed to be after your Uzbek fry-up ... so good to see you thinking of fixing it up again ASAP and getting riding again. Its always the best mentality.

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yep, Im also happy you have it sorted. Who wants to leave a bike behind, even if its only a bmw?

hehehe

When the tranny on my Indian went kaput in Irkutsk in 06, I figured I was thru. But, I tore it apart, & some old guy with a machine shop in the basement was able to line bore it to insert a lada bearing (had just a steel bushing)
and even made several special tools to do the job with.
2 days later, Im back on the road.
When I asked for the bill, his reply was
'do you have enough money to finish your trip?'
what a guy. I paid the bill, 60.00

the russian bearing is still working fine!
and I still have the special tools he gave me afterwards.
I asked why, he said
'when am I going to work on an old Indian again?'


Doug

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nice story Doug ... very Siberian!

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@KP If you need some help fixing your bike send me a PM and maybe its nice to meet.

Malaysia Airlines delayed the cargo flight over and over again, but now fate is back in my own hands again. I picked up the bike at Amsterdam airport tonight. Easy as can be, very little paperwork and 80 euro charges. Tomorrow I will go over the repair plan. Motoworks did not have a wiring loom for my bike.

Colebatch, you are right, I may have been a little too negative about my situation, but at the time I did not see a way out in Urgench. Just so pissed about such a stupid and unnecessary reason to get stranded. Nevertheless, I have my bike. I spend a lot of money to get it here, but it is just money, screw it. I have my bike and there is no reason why I can not fix it just fine here. Tajik / Kyrg will be still there next year.

AHE59, I would like to meet up some time. Let me send you a PM so we can get in contact and comoare notes.

KP