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type action, sitting in Dubai airport in an Irish pub and drinking
Australian beer with a guy from Botswana who has roots from Scotland.
Nearly missed the flight to Perth cause I couldn t distinguish between 2
numbers after the x-th beer...
Perth is called "the easy going city" which seems to be absolutely true.
Very multi-culti here, you see more Asian people than European and there
must be more Asian shops and takeaways than in whole China. Found a
cheap backpackers lodge in northern Perth, 15 mins walk to Perth City and
the Swan River. Not a lot to do except a few preparations. So it s walk,
pub, buy, pub, walk, pub, tel, pub, PP style organization. Found the
mandatory piece of equipment you have to forget to take with you and it s a
towel - not a big problem at all, the Kernov shirt does this job quite well.
The good news arrived this morning: The bikes are in Perth, gone through
quarantine and customs and we can pick them up tomorrow! And it s a
suprisingly cheap tax, we expected some hundred $ per bike and it s 25$ each
at the end. Seems that no one was upset about our dual purpose crate/bar
trandsportation "what-ever-this-is-thing" :-)
The others should arrive at Perth airport in a few minutes so it s time to
prepare myself and wait for them at the hotel bar. Btw, do not expect a
message every day. It might even be I will not write for weeks caused by
failed equipment or lack of motivation, both options are to be expected.
Next plans: Do the paperwork at the registration office which should be easy
unless some info we got at the Swiss Strassenverkehrsamt (equiv. to DVLA) was
wrong. Then reassemble the bike, do a few last preps and plans and if everything
works we are off for the outback on Saturday!
Hope it s raining in CH ;-)
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| It s all done! The bikes are prepared and legaly registred, we bought
all the stuff we need and know all we wanted to know. One more night and
we are off!
Reassembling the bikes was quite an easy job, only a few minor fixes
especialy I had a problem with the choke cable which caused the bike to
shoot more than usual. But after a disapointing visit at KTM Perth I was
finally able to find and fix the problem by myself. We needed 1 1/2 days for
the 4 bikes.
Registering them was only a question of time, they didn t even check if the
engines were running. We were quite lucky cause we didn t check the
electrics before arriving at the registration office and Isabels horn and my
head light were not running. But we could fix it before the they examinated
the bikes. Tourists seem to have a few extra points - a man at a tool shop
told us later that not even our tires would be road legal in Oz...
The mood is good in the team and I think this will work. David and Isabel
are no party animals but do not bother when Berhard and I head for the pub
every night till late. We will have to stop this, the beer is as expensive
as in CH over here, so I would run out of money soon.
Ok that s it so far, the next one will come from the outback. Heading north
tomorrow, on the Great Nothern Highway to Paynes Find where we will leave
the paved roads for a long time. "You re lucky guys" told us a gentleman at
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Reasebling
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Road Legal
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Dave & the Crew
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The Pig
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