Hi Guys, am back from the HU meet .... super, met up with some really fine people, got some super info, tips etc & it did me hart good. Bloody cold at night though

Oke have the tiger 6 weeks & done 7000 kms to date .. Gawwwd me bum hurts After the HU shing ding went to Romania, Hungary & Slovakia. Drove the transfagarsan pass in Romania, brill

Will give you the real story Andy regarding the tiger, but will do it via your website mail, don't want to get bombarded with this little bugger. But I am happy

Guys have fun keep the rubber side down .... sir Vince knight of the sore bums

Well when you think it can't get worse, it can ,mum suffered a stroke ( mild thankfully ) still getting to the bottom of what happened .Now in Tamworth NSW .did manage to get my ride in to the coast ,before hearing the bad news .thanks for the kind wishes .Regards Noel YDF .

Gezz man, when things go bad they go bad then worse, I am really sorry mate, your mum did not need that on top of all the other crap and trying to mend as well.

We nearly went through Tamworth many moons ago but decided to stick coastal so I know where you are at.

Glad you squeezed in a quick mind cleaner before dealing with the stroke.

Again, please wish her well, kiss and hug from ya kiwi brother and sister abroad.

Cheers Andi & Ellen

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Sucre Part 2 .... The Status Of The Stator

This was the problem (not according to the Uyuni autosparky Bolievian)



One sector nearly burnt out and the rest following on



Finally after lies and put offs our stator is rewound, unfortunately yet again the Bolivians tried to rape us blind on the price asking that dearer than US pricing, again this leaves a shitty feeling that every corner you turn here in Bolivia they just want to **** you over and they don’t even smile dong it.

Three times it went back because it simply did not work, he insisted it did work but would not check it, so we forced him to look at the multi meter and the digital volt meter, he did take it back and did fix it almost so it almost worked but not quite enough power coming out, note max 12 .6 volts, then turn on lights, grips etc and it fell below 12 volts.

In the end we asked for our money back and we will take it elsewhere or something as we blew through another weeks accommodation cost waiting for this wanker to fix his ****ups, stress levels exceeding safe limits we called the touristico Policia.

These guys were just as bad, they are also the anti corruption police who are as corrupt as the rest of the abnormal police force, advice to other travellers is don't rely on these guys to help you out as it will not happen.

Several times we tried to negotiate with the guy to get our money back for the wrong rewinding of the wiring but no, in the end he offered 400 out of 600 because we went to the touristico Policia, in Bolivia if someone ****s something of yours you will only get about half back if you are lucky, both parties pay????? ... which meant we ended up paying twice for his shitty work....WTF:eek1

So after arguing like hell to get any money back and threatening him with the touristico Policia he is now being investigated by the Police because he woudl not give a receipt or any paperwork so he is, for his own arseholism going for a skate that will cost him.

As much as I don't want to see people get nailed he deserves every ounce of shit they throw on him for NOT be helpful, for taking a white face to the cleaners and generally being sub human to deal with.

So, we took that refund and gave it straight to another guy who rewound it, the jobs looks like shit but it works, we will buy a factory one when we can as I do not have trust in this.

Our final days in Sucre, 29 days in total, we spent $140 US on a regulator we didn’t need thanks to the auto sparky in Uyuni who said it was stuffed, we paid $140 US for a courier who couldn’t give a **** and caused us grief getting us our unneeded regulator nearly one week later than promised, the auto sparky in Uyuni also said our stator was good, we spent $90 USD getting raped to get our stator rewound cos it was burnt despite what the Uyuni monkey told us, we spent 29 days in Sucre which we didn’t need to waiting for parts we didn’t need. :huh

All in all a very expensive ****up by relying on PAID professional Bolivians who don’t give a **** and charge equal to and more than US prices ... no wonder the place is in so much shit, without being racist NO more Latinos are going to touch Maya ever again as the bullshit, expense, crap and rework is not worth it.

Be fair to say thus far Bolivia is somewhat of a low point for us and confirmed as the most unfriendly and careless bunch in over two years of travel.:cry, they should be called horses cos they all have long faces.

Finally we get to hit the road, we looked at just bailing out of Bolivia because of the crap but it has been a long time coming for me and being the place of most interest so we will continue and I wave to every long faced Boliviano cos they are not going to stuff this up for me.

Next up ... Icla .... I hope it get better :clap

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Chin up mate ,so any idea why the stator burnt out in the first place ?Back home today ,taking tomorrow off the put things in order at home ,mum is making slow progress ,there is nothing more i can do for her at this time ,may go back down when she is ready to come home ,will be about 6 weeks at best.reading your blog cheers me up so thanks ,hope you get the best out of the place from here in.regards YDF Noel

Heya Vince

Back in zona wifi now after 10 days in the back blocks.

Yeah the HU meetings are cool, we did one in Cambria USA and really enjoyed ourselves, meet lots going south and going north.

You will never get bombarded with "offtopic" for something I have asked you, we did get your email and very very informative so seriously appreciated.

Great news you like it, always nice to know there are some shortcoming or I would have felt ripped off on the KTM, no perfect bike outa the box mate, they all need some adjustment and personalizing

Keep us posted on the Tiger (welcome to post on here).

Many thanks, sir Naranja wrecker supreme

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