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Old 7 Sep 2006
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Days driving - Tierra del Fuego and Santiago or Buenos Aires

Can anyone give me a decent estimate as to how many days driving it is (by motorcycle of course) from:

A) Buenos AIres to Tierra del Fuego, and

B) Santiago, Chile to Tierra del Fuego

Trying to plan some flights and stuff and look at my options. This will be at the end of October if that makes any difference. Thaniks!

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I know that riding in a safe path you need 5 days to do BA Ushuaia.
Remember its windy all the time after Bahia Blanca.
I think 100-120 km/h is a realistic safe velocity on those roads.
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Thanks a lot for the help. Now I just need to find some new tires or my KLR will be sliding all over the place.
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You don't want to push it over 100 kph, or it will probably break. The road to Ushuaia is long and there is a lot of wind. It is not as bad as some would have you believe, I did it on my Quota and was with a guy on an Africa Twin. We regularly hit speeds of 160-175 kph, even in the "windy" part. But the KLR650 is not made to operate that fast, and you are better off taking it easy and enjoying the monotony of miles and miles of pampa and desert and gravel and sheep.
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Ill keep that in mind. Im not in a huge rush, but I just wanted to get a basic idea of how much ground Ill have to cover. RIght now Im planning on giving myseld two weeks to go from BA to TDF and then back to BA or to San, so that should give me ample time. Thanks again for all the advice.

PS, any word on gas prices these days in Argentina or Chile? Im sick of getting slaughtered by $4.80 a gallon in Peru.
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Thumbs up Naftas en Argentina

The price of Super(95 octans) is 1,92 pesos and 98 octans 1,98 .
So U$S 0,6 per liter.
In uruguay 1 liter 1,1 U$S.
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God I hope we can go to Santiago. Here is my situation - my flight home leaves out of Buenos Aires. I am just leaving my bike down here, either in Santiago or Buenos Aires. If it is possible to leave the bike in Santiago then I may just leave it there and take a bus to BA to catch my flgith, how expensive can that be. Otherwise I will have to miss Chile and head back to BA after going down to TDF, because I am pretty sure I can just leave my bike in BA and hop on a plane. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!

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Thumbs up Nate,why Santiago?

If you are going to leave your bike in Santiago and then take a 22 hours trip with bus for catching your fligth in BA.......???????
Gas in chile is VERY expensive,so after TDF go to BA,have a few s,nice asado and red wine with us here!!!!! and then take your fligth back home.
Bike thingay a notar(not expensive) and autorize someone(javier from DAKARMOTOS) so he can extend the temporary import.Or sell it before you leave(to a traveller),cross to uruguay(with ferry and the bike) at the new owners costs.So he can enter the bike with his name on the import.You cash the bike and make someone happy!
To dump it in Santiago........dumb decision.
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I agree it would be a dumb decision to dump it, but I dont know how easy it is going to be to find a buyer, and time is going to be very tight. Plus the bike is taking a beating, so I dont know how much it will be worth to someone by that point.-

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You should get the notary papers done anyway. That way someone else can sell the bike/pass the bike on on your behalf.

Would be a shame to litter South America with derilict/unusable bikes because we cannot be asked to get a piece of paper so the bike can be used...

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Nate,when are you comming to BA? and leaving?

Annette,(sunflowers) does this bike interest you??????
Javier could rebuild it probably for your trip.Its a shot worth to try.
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I will definitely try to do the necessary paperwork if there is time. But I have no idea what to do, and I wont have long once I get to Santiago. I agree it sucks to dump bikes. If someone can point me in the right direction as far as what paperwork needs to be done and where to do it, I will make every effort to do so.

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I will definitely try to do the necessary paperwork if there is time. But I have no idea what to do, and I wont have long once I get to Santiago. I agree it sucks to dump bikes. If someone can point me in the right direction as far as what paperwork needs to be done and where to do it, I will make every effort to do so.

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Try and contact Mario from the Santiago community. He is of the legal profession and managed to get the necessary paperwork and authorisation to sell the bikes for us in about 20 mins at a cost of about 4000 Pesos.

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