Hi,

Once you get to South Korea or Japan it can be expensive to get to places.. Korean Airlines have a really good airfreight division which can ship motorcycles (when we checked in mid 2009). On their web page you can see what routes they do.. If you carefully plan the trip so that there are no stop overs on the air freight route you can really save some cash.. Here is the URL Korean Air Cargo - To be a respected leader in the world airline community

On the flip side its _very_ easy to ship via sea from Japan. There is a company Kiwicar which ships from Kawasaki (and other ports) direct to Brisbane and onwards to New Zealand. Their prices are unbeatable and the service is pretty good (at least it was for us). The catch is that if you go via japan its expensive for accommodation etc so what you save in shipping you may end up spending anyway. We really had a great time in Japan and it was a really welcome change from an early winter in eastern Russia.

From Brisbane depending on the season you can ride all over the place very easily but if your travelling from Octoberish -> March its the wet season so riding can be a little damp.. The real risk is Cyclones if your unlucky.

Getting from Bangkok around Asia is pretty easy, Once you get to the Indonesian chain of islands it can become a challenge to get the bikes around but that's all part of the fun Most people tend to go from Bali -> Darwin. There can be some big prices..

If your looking to budget I would expect the total shipping costs from Vladivostok to South Korea, then from there to Say Bangkok, and then from somewhere like Bali to Aus to total around $5000US.. That is based on some pricing that I got in 2008/2009 so it may have gone up or down depending on the demand and GFC.

We ended up spending about $1000US to ship us and two bikes from Vlad -> Fushiki and then another $1000US to get from there to Brisbane... Then we rode around Aus before returning to Sydney,. If you drive a hard bargin and get shipping companies on board with the fact your riding for Charity it maybe something that you can get at a discount rate but it depends on so many things (most of which is luck)...