I corrected the trip, excluding Indonesia, for the reasons explained in the topic http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ustralia-67106

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Of course, the obvious question is: why the heck ? but to each their own.

Iron Butt aside, the main problem I see with your maniac plan is the shipping: I've been in Kathmandu and overseen the shipping of a bike myself, I can see it can take anywhere from 1-2 weeks. Don't expect to just waltz in and find people ready to crate your bike and haul it into the plane. They just don't work like that over there. I imagine the Thai and Malaysians may possibly be a bit better but not so much. And you have no idea how bad the Brazilian bureaucracy is. Better ship from Argentina. Now, how long could it possibly take to clear a bike from the customs in Dakar, I can only guess... only to run into their colleagues at the Mauri border a few hours later!

You're looking at more time spent with shipping and running from office to office than actually riding. So why the heck...

In any case, we want to hear how it went here!

Happy riding,
Laurent

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Your question is interesting and legitimate.
"Why the heck?" And you've already given the answer. "To each Their Own."
But now I will try to give a more complete answer.
I am a biker and a traveler, I call myself a "motoviaggiatore" (in English I think we can translate "motorcycle traveler"). I like to travel by motorcycle. Only with the motorcycle, and the motorcycle I just like if I travel.
I traveled with my bike in 64 countries: all the states of Europe, half of Asia and North Africa. I arrived with my bike at the farthest point that I could reach by land, starting from my house (Lecce, Italy): Vladivostok, after more than 13,000 kilometers and 15 days of uninterrupted driving from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. And in Vladivostok, after visiting Japan and Korea, I rode the bike and I went back to the same road.
I want to make a trip that should not turn the bike back, I want to keep on going, this is the meaning of my around the world.
We in Europe do not have nearly as the problem of borders, often even now descend from the bike to cross a border, a quick check with a customs officer distracted just watching our document.
Outside Europe, it changes everything, and, as Europe I "finished", I already know I'll have to deal with these challenges border.
I have dealt with the customs of Egypt, Mongolia, Turkmenistan ..., what I find during my RTW, then they will not be too much worse than the old ones.
But in a journey that goes out of the good old, simple Europe is this normal, I would be delusional if I thought it's all easy. If I wanted to only drive on nice roads, would not go out of Europe, which has some amazing roads and better suited to the bike most of the states that will cross, and indeed may not even get out of Italy that I consider the most beautiful country in the world (along with the mountains of your Switzerland). But I am a traveler, not just a motorcycle, a motorcycle traveler.
At a RTW also borders difficult have their charm, are like salt in a dish: no, it would be bland. Are an additional challenge, as well as the miles, the roads, fatigue, sun, cold, heat, accidents. The whole makes a RTW. According to me.
Regarding your predictions on the timing of the couriers, I have organized so (see the four specific topics that I opened).
With the courier in Kathmandu I have already made arrangements, set the price and time, in two days I'll be ready to go. If he's late, do not pay him: he wants the money and then do the work. Already has the measurements of my bike.
From Malaysia to put the motorcycle on the plane is simple: lots of riders have told you did in one day alone.
In Brazil, my correspondent has already documents, and my bike, to save time. The ship (from Argentina) I can not take: it's too slow compared to the plane. And then I want to get in Brazil: no turning back (or I stop) in Argentina.
Australia are almost already building the case.
A 2-month RTW is not organized at the last minute, but with method, precision and tenacity.
One last thing: I want to make the RTW, but I do not want to leave my family and my job for more than two months. So I will do my RTW in two months, and I will continue to do so, because, after all, I like to travel so fast.
If I give up on such trips because they're too fast for many, then it would limit my horizons and do not want to limit them.

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After seeing some of those astronomically expensive quotes you've received from shippers, here's a tip (just to consider, its fully possible you've already decided what to do, and I respect that, but I'll just throw it here anyway):

How about doing this same trip in multiple "legs"? Like first ride to some suitable country in Asia, store the bike there, fly home to work, next year return to continue to do the 2nd leg, and so on.

I understood you needed to keep your job back home. This way it might be possible. And while it would not make everything regarding the trip logistics trouble-free, it would at least mean you are in not in as much of a hurry. Ride to Asia&store the bike in two months, fully doable...but RTW with what, 4 major shippings, in two months? That should go into the Guinness book of records, if you can pull that off!

But like I said, merely a suggestion to consider. To even fly home once (so the trip split into two legs) could already be a different ballgame.. though still quick for a RTW-tour.

I thank you for the suggestion, but I had already ruled out, radically, from the beginning, this possibility.
Because it is contrary to my way of traveling.
A journey for me has to have a beginning, a middle and an end.
A journey "in installments" I just do not conceive.
On a trip I appreciate the unity of time, place, and action (concepts initially attributed to Aristotle).
Unit of time: a trip should not have breaks, except those necessary techniques.
Unity of place: a journey to be a "continuous line" without jumps (of course, except those necessary: I can not walk on water).
Unity of action. Once you start the journey, I devote myself completely to travel: not interrupt him to return to "normal" life.
This is my "travel philosophy".

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