Hv u ever dream of touring a place on a motorbike alone and
in the same time doing challenging activities such as mountain climbing and
diving? Well, I do, and I realized that dream during my previous Trans Borneo
Ride covering the state of Sabah (inclusive Labuan), Brunei, Sarawak, crossing
the border to Kalimantan and all the way to Pontianak, and finally finishing in
Kuching. How did I do that? Well, here’s my story....
BEFORE THE RIDE
Research on my routes and how to ship my bike had been done
few months prior to my journey. I need to plan my journey well as this is my
very first time shipping my bike via cargo flight and its going to take 18 days
for me to complete my ride. As the saying goes, ‘fail to plan is planning to
fail’. I am not going to take that risk since this ride is important to me for
my future ride. I hv been searching for infos on the internet, reading other
ppl overland blogs, contacting fellow bikers who had ride to Borneo and making
lots of calls here and there. Arrangements had been made, and finally, after
sending DREAM to the workshop for maintenance, I send him to MasKargo for
shipment. It was not easy for a first-timer to do this, as a matter of fact, it
was very complicated. To get into the MasKargo Complex itself was a pain in the
ass. Lots of procedures to follow, security pass to get, security checks,
registrations and bla bla bla. The complex area was very big and you can get
lost in finding yr way around, especially at night. When I finally made it to
the export office, I hv to recheck all the documents, then go to the customs to
pay the tax (the section already closed by that time so I hv to go to the
forwarding agent office to sort it out for me and hv to pay extra $$$), then
PUSPAKOM checking, again back to the customs to finalize the papers and in the
end back to MasKargo export office to settle the payment. Fuuhhh....it took me
about 2 and a half hours to settle all the procedures. Seriously, if one is not
determine enough to do this, I am very sure that they would have surrendered
from the very beginning, or simply get the agent to do it (and pay additional
$$$ for it of course). Since I am determined enough, and I know that this is
not going to be the first and the last time I’m shipping my bike across the
ocean, I am willing to learn and face whatever nick nacks that comes in
between.
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| DREAM was weigh at 150kgs (with the boxes empty) |
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