Dear bikerfellows

being out on the road in Nevada /USA right now since 17 th of may fro 12500 km so far, with an itinerary for Brasil / Fortalezza mid to end of July 2015I, I have a variety of questions on shipping to and riding in Brasil.

I hope you can help me along to come to a final conclusion, whether to travel Brasil or not at all.

( please note I have a bit bike-travelled various times South- and Centralamerica , Northamerica and Alaska as welll Northern and southern Africa, Russia and Asia with Kasachstan and Mongolia plus all over Europe and various other places in the past 33 years , so this is not a newbys question about travelling safety, but a serious concern , if the present constellation is a good one to be taken to Brasil and therefor appreciating experienced travellers opinions about the matter- and there is no better place than the Hubb for that ) I just fight a bad feeling about Brasil these days.

Being on a 50000 mile charity project as described here http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...a-canada-82369


, the Ride-of-Smiles is using a 2015 R1200 GS Adventure LC . This makes it pretty much impossible to "ride at low radar " through Brasil.

May I ask you about your personal opinion about the risk of loosing a) the bike and b) more and related also personal belongings up to your life whilst travelling Brasil north to South on to Paraguay and Argentina. Technical support , spares, tyres and alike will well make it necessary to get into some major cities like Rio and Sao Paulo.

There is (well understood) a variety of opinions on travels in Brasil. A lot of good advices point into the right direction of not causing any attraction by personal outfit- just like I would tell it to peole asking me about destinations I travelled before. I would travel Brasil anytime on one of my old 650s- so it is not about that )

Yet the attraction of an obvous torist and travellers bike on this mission cannot be avoided this time. Besides "wrong time and wrong place - and shit can happen anywhere" - what is your personal opinion on that. Will help me getting along to the right decision - thank you for that.

Another question I would like to ask you is about lodging with facilities to store the bike away in Brasil - is there anything like an Adressslist or Link on the Hubb about that ?

Would you be out camping in Brasil these days at all ?

Is anybody around travelling Brasil / Paraguay/ Urugay / Argentina and Chile these days and would like to share some miles on the road ?

please feel free to contact me here at the contactform

Ride Of Smiles - 50.000 miles - CONTACT + GUESTBOOK + LINKS + INFOS

or via the Hubb-Forum.

Final ( off topic here a bit) - does anybody know about a company building crades for the bike in Miami / alternative US or Canada Westcoast if I change travelplans in San Diego / Los Angeles / Vancouver )

Any answer is a good one - so thank you all for supporting.

The final question is : Would YOU do it yourself ;-)

BABA Henning

(registered before as ROC2008)

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BABA Henning
www.ride-of-smiles.com - when bikers make a better world