I just want to quickly thank everyone here for supplying me with information, really helped me out in a troubled time.

A week ago I arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and quickly started looking for an Ural sidecar.

There were some people mentioning the unreliability of those bikes and some were doubting Id find one i a good shape.

Wez hooked me up with Sergei who is a local here and we had contact even before I left Nepal.
He started looking for Urals for me, even though he reckons I should buy one of those chinese bikes.

But I already set my mind on riding back home on a Ural and honestly, I don't trust those chinese bikes more than I trust the Ural.
At least for the Ural it should be easy to find cheap parts along the way and they're fairly easy to fix.

So we went out and started looking for them - turns out there is not too many around.
I ended up in some dodgy backyards where I was shown half assembled Urals and other bikes - always promised that the engine has been just rebuild, so new Cylinders, pistons etc.

One can say a lot on a long day, and I don't doubt they had been rebuild.
But just not in the past 5 years or its equivalent of 20thousand kilometres.

In the end there was only one bike available and it was about 100km out of Bishkek.
We called the guy but he reckoned he already had another client who was keen on buying it.
We weren't sure if he's just playing mind games to rise the price or if he was for real, so we waited until the next morning to let him know we're coming out there to inspect the bike..

He then told us he's pretty much on his way to bishkek, because the other client ( who turned out to be real) wanted the bike and would pay him the asked price of 700 USD.

So there we were, the only bike available at the moment is slipping through my hands just like that.

So I outbid him and ended up paying 800USD ( Im broke, but 100 bucks more or less, who cares.)

The bike is in a reasonable good condition - Sergei reckons its one of the best bikes he has seen around and the guy riding it 100kms was proof enough that it at least runs.

We went to the notary and I got the Power of Attorney.

So now here I am, with my 1987 Ural sidecar - estimated 8500km away from home.

There is a few things that have to be fixed( carby) and I have to prepare the bike for the trip.
My next step will be installing a 500watt inverter and getting a car battery in the sidecar.

I was also thinking about installing some spotlights on the sidecar as well as small sound system for nights around the camp fire.

I am fairly good with mechanics, but I was thinking of finding a good local mechanic who could check the bike fore me and prepare it for the trip - I reckon by the time I go to the local markets and find the parts I need Im already gonna get ripped off and the price difference might as well be the wage for the mechanic..

Does anyone know a good mechanic in Bishkek?
And does anyone know where I could get panniers and a tank bag?

Any help is appreciated.
Thank you very much