bike rentals in Kazakstan? SilkOffRoad.KZ??

[khpostma]

Next year we are thinking of riding around Tajikistan and Kyrgystan for 4 - 5 weeks. Instead of spending a lot of time and money getting there and back we are considering renting bikes in Alamaty. The only outfit that seems to be doing such businisss there is SilkOffRoad.KZ. There are other outfits found on the internet that rent out bikes, but they may possibly get the bikes from SilkOffRoad. Does anybody have any experience with these folks and their bikes? We are looking at their Suzuki's DR650. It is not cheap to rent bikes, but we probably would spend the same money in getting there and back, let alone shipping bikes from the US to Europe. The Russian visa alone cost us last year $500 pp. We would rather spend some quality time in Tajik and Kyrg instead of spending 3 - 4 weeks going thru Russia/Kazakstan.

Anybody know these guys and their bikes?

KP