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Originally Posted by colebatch
Go to Bike City 34 in Volgograd and see if they can help you.
What bike are you riding? To have a bent rear rim, it must really be pretty lousy
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Update: I am back home now (posting the trip on the Ride Tales section). The rim was repaired in Astrakhan and I was able to continue the journey without further problems. 21,000km and three months of commuting and weekend use, the bike has cracked the 100,000-km limit and the repaired rim is still in place. Those Russians did an amazing job.
In defence of my V-strom, I have to say that it was a case of wrong speed - wrong pothole. It bent just enough to let the air leak, but was made worse by a Kazakh mechanic who tried to straighten it with a hammer and broke a chunk of lip off. Other than that - which can be attributed to my reckless riding, the bike performed flawlessly for the whole trip, not requiring anything else than regular maintenance.
A friend of mine had similar problem after hitting a rock in Uzbekistan, and he was riding a GSA, which I would hardly call a 'lousy bike'.
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