Hi everybody,

I am in Buenos Aires and am planning to buy a cheap secondhand scooter there to tour Argentina. Offcourse I´d rather ride a bike but I do not yet have my motorcycle driving license! (I´m getting one in July in Holland)

My general route will be to go south along the coast, cross the country to Bariloche, cross the Andes to Chile, ride north to Santiago, cross the Andes again, to Mendoza, and then via Cordoba back to Buenos Aires. Offcourse these are a lot of miles to be covered and I do not know if I will make it but it would be really cool.

I think i will be needing a tent, mat and sleeping bag, raingear and some heavy clothing because it gets quite cold there now. And also some simple tools and maybe a spare tyre, and a scooter offcourse. Does anybody know a cheap way to get these things, maybe some seconhand stuff I could buy somewhere?

In most countries you can drive a scooter up to a certain amount of cc`s or speed with just a car driving license right. Who knows what you can drive in Argentine? I asked a guy in a store yesterday and he said that in Buenos Aires you can drive up to 50cc, but outside B-A nobody cares about a licence. But legally I think I need to insure my bike, could i insure a bike without actually having a licence...?
If I can`t drive a motorized bike at all I might consider getting a license, but would this be expensive and hard to get? The same guy also told me that they are not really expensive but you do have to answer 30 questions in spanish..

Oh yeah and I don`t know how to fix a scooter flat tyre, I`m quite good with normal bicycles so I think I can learn, but is there a site somewhere which explains these kind of things? Or a good book available in shops in B-A?

O and can a 50cc scooter cross the Andes, or does it get troubles with the fuel becouse of the different pressure and oxigen availability...?
Or maybe it can`t go uphill..

Thanks!

Greetings,
Broos