Hey Robbie,

Ditto for the recommendation of the bike club in Vlad as a good resource, I would make them my first point of contact. My poor memory seems to recall they are called the Iron Tigers, but that may be wrong. They do a lot of work on their bikes so would have a very good idea of which out of the way shop to take you to, especially if you are looking for more finicky work on sub frames and the such as opposed to more straighforward projects like luggage racks, etc. And a local guide does make your life a lot easier as the streets have no names and the workshops are pretty hard to find if you aren't from there so they can make a time consuming process much shorter.

If you need substantial work done, I would get it figured out in Vlad as it's your biggest city for a while and it is a gateway for cars imported from Asia so there is a lot of automotive/mechanical work being done in the city. After that, as previous posters have commented, every small town has a gas station and welder as staple road side services. I could never figure out if that was a comment on the quality of the roads, the vehicles, the drivers or all of the above

One last suggestion, the road side welders are masters and making things run and getting you to the next town. Having said that, their opinion of acceptable "tolerances" and "straight" vary from welder to welder and you want to keep a very close eye on the process. I have fond memories of a nice Mongolian man welding without goggles, using stolen power from a straight feed from the overhead power lines as his welder to fix a luggage rack

Ride safe.