21/08/08
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Back at home!
The bike is now in a crate waiting to come home, and I'm back at work! After getting to Almaty, it took 2 fairly hectic days to sort out all the shipping - the paperwork, which involved traipsing round the city between the shipping agents (Globalink), the notary (basically a cheap solicitor, who had to give the shippers power of attorney over the bike), a translation service who had to translate my passport for the notary to be able to do their thing, and another notary who had to certify the translation! That was a bit of a hoo-hah. Once that was sorted, I then followed someone from Globalink in their car down to their warehouse, which was based on a fearsome-looking scrapyard near the airport. There, the poor bike had many of its extremities removed (to reduce the size of the crate that would be built around it, and therefore the shipping cost) and was wheeled into the cavernous shed to await its fate. That's the last I've seen of it! All being well, she'll be back here on Tuesday and getting well pampered next weekend. Apart from the clutch incident in Lviv, nothing at all went wrong with it. A new rear tyre, and she'll be good to go again. Which is more than can be said for her rider - I've had enough of biking for at least a month!
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