Originally Posted by Zimi

bob66, you can as well send the bikes from Germany directly to Ulan Bataar by truck. I will do it next summer to ride the road of bones.

it costs about 1100 euro one way, here is the contact. Say that David Zimmermann gave you the contact, I already had a few emails with this guy, very helpful.

Andreas König
Pan Europa Transport (Süd) GmbH
Bietigheimer Str. 62
71732 Tamm
Tel: +49 7141 97487 35
Fax: +49 7141 97487 29
www.pan-europa.de

Originally Posted by klausmong1

I was trying to get Contact with Baikalcomplex.

No help

This is what they wrote me:


So I am still looking for a possibility to take my bike from Irkutsk to Moscow on the beginning of august.

At the moment I still dont know i i drive back home to vienna all the way from UB ore take the train to moscow.

If i take the train to moscow, i would go from moscow over Lithuania and Latvia back home.
Which seems also interesting.

Lets see, if i dont find a transport, i will drive and haver fun too

Originally Posted by stephen.stallebrass

In case anyone else stumbles across this old thread, here is my most recent experience.

Baikal Complex (linked above) were zero help.

I put my bike on the russian post train from Irkutsk to Moscow today. Had loads of help from Alexei, aka Monster. He won't mind me passing his details on.

I'm taking the TranSiberian train in a couple of days. Always planned to do this, just don't fancy the boring ride west over the same highway. Heard lots of good things from other travelers about the train journey.

Plus, I wiped out the other day on some wet tram tracks, so I fancy a few days resting up.

Anyway here's his details:

+7 950 0844465
mrmonster[at]mail[dot]ru

He's a biker and a top bloke! He's helped peeps in the past and he apparently knows RTWDoug from his time here a few years ago.



Had to do it officially, I don't think its possible to do it unofficially anymore, at least not here, maybe at another smaller station. I tried to do it Doug style...

It cost me 200 roubles for every 10kg, not inc crate building and loading/unloading by the dock guys, which was 3000 roubles. I paid 9400 roubles all in (£180).

Unloaded bike (F8GS) was 233kg (inc 1/2 tank fuel), luggage (inc TT Zega boxes) was 43kg. Got charged for 300kg (that included the crate).

Your supposed to drain the fuel but the dock guys said don't bother, as long as you keep it schtum, they know your f@$ked at the other end if you do.

Will probably need to pay the dock guys in Moscow to unload and dispose of crate.

Hope this helps someone. It's not an adventure if you don't have to crate the bike at least once, LOL.

Steve

Originally Posted by stephen.stallebrass

As I've had a couple of follow-up questions, thought I might share the info here.

If you want some assistance sorting out yourbike shipping and ticket purchase just send Alexei an email, he's a lovely guy, I'm sure he'll help you out. His details are here.

It took a couple of days after I arrived in Moscow for the post train to arrive. Finding the place to collect it was a nightmare: I didn't speak Russian, they didn't speak English and the women have no interest in helping you they just want to get rid of you. I stayed at at the Chillax Hostel, not far from the station, you could easily walk it or get the Metro, which is only a couple of stops.

I eventually found it though, its a bit out of the way: about a mile from the main Yaroslavsky station. The GPS co-ordinates of the cargo depot are 55.782652, 37.655773 the depot entrance is at the end of 'Krasnosel'skiy tupik' here is the google map link. There's a couple of great guys there that will help you. Here's a street view of the place: