Anyone in Kathmandu

[andygray]

Hello
Could anybody in or about to to get to Kathmandu spare 30 mins of their time to perform a favour for me. I left a couple of bikes there at an hotel in thamel and would like to know if they are still being stored as promissed. Contact me through my email address in the profile and quote 'horizons' in subject.
Thanks in advance
Andy

[Rik Blocksidge]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by andygray:
Hi Andy,

I'l be in Kathmandu in a fewdays time, I would be happly, to have a look at your bikes i normaly stay in Thamel.

I will be on my Bm, I take it there is "safe parking"!!

As I have fell out with the hotel I use the last few time, I was in Kathmadu!!


Ride free, Ride safe, Ride one more mile,

Rik & Changeling

[andygray]

Sorted
Thanks a lot Paul, Bikes safe and sound.
Thankfull Andy

[andygray]

So I picked up the bikes after leaving them for a year. No problem, they were still exactly as I left them, not moved or touched. I can therefore recomend the "Hotel Encounter Nepal" for storage. It cost me $10 a month for two bikes. Whilst finding a place to leave the bikes wasn't difficult, some people offering a place for free, this hotel offered the use of a downstairs room. Nothing but dust fell on the bikes.
The hotel is 5 minutes walk north of thamel centre, has a large yard and is in the $10 a night range.
So if anyone needs a place to leave their bikes then these people seem ok.
Hope this info is usefull to someone.
Andy

And a very merry christmass to all you people out there. Ride safe and enjoy the planet.

[This message has been edited by andygray (edited 23 December 2003).]

[TBR-China]

Andy or others..
any good leads or contacts (e-mail) regarding travel agents in Kathmandu or Lhasa (Tibet)? seems a lot of agents or service agents promise everything but is it....true?

thanks for feedback. best regards from Shanghai!
BUTCH
www.butchshanghai.com

[andygray]

Hi Butch
First of all thanks for trying to get info out of Jerryfromchina. I was hoping, and still am, that he can offer what he promises, but no replys to your questions...
Try these people for info... http://www.himalayanoffroad.com/
I went to thier offices a few times to discuss a Tibet ride. Very helpfull and certainly experienced as they provided the bikes and support for the recent ride up mount everest record. I am probably going to use these people to get a guide and arrange the border deposits for riding in Tibet later this year.
Like you said there seem to be hundreds offering services but at least these gentlemen I have met in person.

Andy

[This message has been edited by andygray (edited 06 January 2004).]

[TBR-China]

Thanks Mate!
we are planning a ride next year or 06 from Xining to Lhasa via Xigaze (Shigatse) to the base of Mt.Everest (either Rongbuk or Karta) back to Lhasa and down to Chengdu.

this year we having our Thunder in the Hills 04 "The Return" ride going from Chengdu up to Qinghai Lake (Xining) via Songpong and Jiuzhaigou and still discussing to end the ride in either Lanzhou, Yinchuan or Xian.

yeah, right, to many BS people around and everybody is after your $$$$....

best regards, seeya in the pub or on the road somewhere....
BUTCH
www.butchshanghai.com