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We have emailed this corporation 3 times no reply.
Trying to get quote for 2 DRZ 400 bikes air freight from Buenos Aires to U.S.A. mid March.
Don't have a phone to call them, has anyone ever gotten a response from Dakar Motors?
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You "don't have a phone," but phoning has always been the best way to reach Javier and Sandra, with email distinctly less certain. It's up to you: be stubborn and maybe get lucky, or do the obvious. There are lots of phones around, wherever you are.

Hope that's helpful.

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Don't have a phone... really? come on Billy...of all the phones, sim cards, mobiles cluttering up our planet in 2017...

Just in case what you meant was that you did not google their telephone number , here it is: +54 11 4730-0586
and their address:
B1603ARB Villa Martelli,Buenos Aires, Tres Arroyos 680, Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina

and their website

and google map location

And Javier and Sandra are not (to my knowledge) a corporation but a helpful husband and wife team in BA with a motorcycle repair/storage/import/export business.
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Happened to me same back in 2016 as I Emailed them 3 times and phone them but no answer ...

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Some people work, work wnd work, and then take a vacation

They no longer store motorbikes for a myriad of well founded reasons, nor do repairs for another myriad of well founded reasons.

They are a two person operation, often over worked by too many arrivals/departures during high season.

One could conclude that like many Argentina residents they take a well earned vacation when 90% of the rest of the country does, during this time of the year, to recharge their cranial batteries and renew family ties. Hopefully they are away for the mental health reasosns and not physical health reasons.

When I was there in February they took time out of their very busy schedule to share a cup of coffee and horror tales of ungrateful travellers using them to fix the travellers mistakes. They are a real traveller asset (and in my opinion underpaid) and have been since I first met them in 1998.

If you're merely shopping for a shipping price, there are numerous other freight forwarders in BA - try one of those.

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The Argentinean bikers that I met in 2002 and 2003 in Buenos Aires, at a time when Argentina was in one of the worst crisis in his history, were some of the best people I met on my journey around the world. They would go far out of their way to help us buying a bike for my girlfriend, registering it, organizing sponsorship of Yamaha Argentina and I could go on listing what they did for us. Until today I am proud to call some of them friends. Javier and Sandra are among them.

@Bill: This is the peak season for travelers coming and going from BsAs. You have to understand that Dakar Motos get a lot of emails from people that have not even left home, and will never leave. Also from a lot of people that will never come to BsAs. And as they have to calculate every quote and answer all your questions, of course it will take time ... and you are not even in Argentina yet. So relax, this is South America, where things are slower, but they will work out in the end.

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I was in Argentina that time at Rio Hondo MotoGP race in April....no answer at all.
Mika ....that was way back in 2003...thinks change and people too.

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May I again quote Hunter S. Thompson " Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride!"

We have known of Javier and Sandra's work since Viedma, Argentina HUBB meeting early 2000s. Good people and as has been posted here hard working for little fair exchange. We are also in the motorcycle parking business, (see our ad on HUBB www.xfiltrate.com. xfiltrate motorcycle parking, Buenos Aires, Argentina: established 2006) and you cannot imagine the intrigues over landers/HUBBERS bring to us.

We, like Javier and Sandra, have sorted out selling of bikes, buying of bikes, trading of bikes, broken bikes, lost bikes, injuries and illnesses and one death, toothaches, parts, documents and paper work, problems with immigration, customs and police, problems with girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and wives, drunks, lost people, lost keys, lost luggage, fights and feuds, stolen passports, stolen money and credit cards, problems with prostitutes and lovers, mental breakdowns - and this is the short list. We have never even tried to repair bikes.... but have served as multilingual translators and friends....

Javier and Sandra have not only parked bikes, provided shelter and food, but repaired bikes, imported bikes, exported bikes - served as multilingual translator.... PLUS much more than all of the above on our short list and yet, they are still very much alive and continuing to help - even at the expense of their own family life.

billy_357 Today anyone - for a few pennies a call can call any phone in the world via SKYPE - an easy application to use. Get over it.

Si señor, January, February and March = the Argentine "summer vacation"


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I had contacted "Dakar motos" several times, emailed and spoke with Sandra and Javier. Very, very nice folks. I had no issues neither with emails nor phone calls.
I had my bike repaired there (custom made voltage regulator) and it still works 6 years later.

Anyway, there will always be people willing to find a way to do things, and the others who, instead, find excuses.
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I was in Argentina that time at Rio Hondo MotoGP race in April....no answer at all.
Mika ....that was way back in 2003...thinks change and people too.
@Kawazoki

If your emails to Dakar Motos were the same as your posts in this thread ... one or two liners ... than I am not surprised you did not get an answer.

*thinks change and people too* Yes, and the gras is green and sky is blue, blablabla

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Happened to me same back in 2016 as I Emailed them 3 times and phone them but no answer ...

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I was in Argentina that time at Rio Hondo MotoGP race in April....no answer at all.
Mika ....that was way back in 2003...thinks change and people too.

Drive safe

Hi all

Billy’s email reply was in process before he send the mentioned 3rd email that arrived at the same time he wrote here, now the answer for the 3 is sent. His concerns are for March and we have people without answer (yet) for the next days and weeks. Sorry to all of you who are waiting for a reply from us, and we couldn’t yet… We have to give some kind of chronological priorities when we don’t have the time to reply to all as soon emails arrive...

@Kawazoki: We never received 3 emails from you, just only one. That was on last April 24th Thursday, 24th and 25th was Easter (Pascuas) and then was the weekend that as with all the public holidays here we don’t work (or reply phones or emails) and sometimes try to hit the road as any other biker. We try to have a life too. That just one email was only two lines saying that you were in your “way from Ushuaia to the motoGP and passing Bueno Aires on Saturday 26.03 and wondering if is possible to stay at your place for couple of days and do some maintenance on my DR650”. The Termas de Rio Hondo MotoGP was from the 1st to the 3rd of May and 1200Kms north of BA.
From last Dic 2015 we have moved to other smaller place, staying facilities and self-bike maintenance aren’t services we will be able to provide for a long time by now.
Now maybe you will understand that a late reply to you didn’t had any sense as also didn’t have any sense to says that you have sent many emails when wasn’t like that.
As you say “things change and people too”, Mika and many other travellers have met us several times in the past (wow!) 15 years and more, he was in all my last 3 locations, we have been together in few HU meetings, at “La Posta” and “Finca Rita”, we have ride together and shared few s and asados, last one just few weeks ago. Many things have changed. People? Well we all change with time…

@Markharf and @Sun Chaser (Aka Ozzie Osborne) we are looking forward for the next time we can meet you, again.

@Bertrand when you will come? Or will force us to go to the UK?

@eX (AKA Eduardou) Love your lists, totally true… I think we can add a few others items.

@Vlada I’m surprised you still around, Argie GF didn’t send you back to Serbia? Only 6 year? I was sure was even more… Regulator guaranty is expired.

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we are looking forward for the next time we can meet you, again.
Every day I wake up, pull on a bathrobe, and stagger out the door to see if you and Sandra have arrived--maybe you're shivering in the corner next to the skis, or curled up in the shrubbery behind the mountain bikes. Alas....no sign of you yet. I'll keep hoping, so don't disappoint me!
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I see above they responded, they did as well personally to my email.
I wasn't aware of how busy they are and this is our first time in S.A.
We're looking forward to working with them in March.
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@Vlada I’m surprised you still around, Argie GF didn’t send you back to Serbia? Only 6 year? I was sure was even more… Regulator guaranty is expired.
Still here, will be 10 years in July 2018. We are married now and we have 4y old daughter. Regulator is still regulating very well

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I've just spent three months in Argentina. Sandra and Javier are two of the nicest and most helpful people I have had the pleasure to meet.

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