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Old 11 Mar 2018
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Smile Looking for trustworthy biker in ALMATY

Hi guys !

I would buy a motorcycle in Almaty, in may 2018. I really need someone who could help me to look for my future horse ! Don't want buy a rubbish and got troubles with it every 100km. Also i only know 5 words in russian and my english could be better...^^. Does anyone know some friends i can trust ??



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I think we have contacted in FB )) Here is a few possibilities to buy second hand bike. It local web portal (kolesa.kz, here you can use google tranlate to understand the prices and the bikes we have for sell in Almty), and few bike shops. But i don't think this will be easy to sell that bike back to shop or to private persons. Kazakhstan as well as surround countries isn't really "bike" orientated countries, like south-east Asia. But anyway we have communities and enough bikers. So, as i wrote you in PM, i can guide you somehow and assist locally. First of all, the better will be to tell what kind of bike you are searching for. May be the better option will be rent motorbike in Bishkek ? It could be cheaper and it is 250 km away from Almaty. We can check those possibilities.

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i am arriving at around the same time! aiming to be there on the 25th of may. Finding a motorcycle shouldn't be too much of a problem, but i'm more worried about registering the bike and being able to ride it out of the country as a tourist. how does one go about this? I'm probably gonna look for a 125cc japanese bike on kolesa, 250cc at the most.
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try Marat at [url=http://www.silkoffroadtours.com/team/]Team
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