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
Last edited by khpostma; 5 Jul 2010 at 05:33.
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