Nice breakfast, as you would expect and we are off to Quito. The ride is uneventful apart from the usual, finding the right road out of the city. Thankfully we seem to be out of landslip areas or they just clean up here a lot more quickly. We go through a lot of built up and industrial areas on the way and finally we arrive in Quito.
First stop is to find some tyres as both of mine are mainly bald, so of to the BMW main agent. No they don’t stock tyres but inform us where a tyre place is that should have them, I asked if they would ohone them for us as trecking round the city on the offchance is no fun. Yes they have 2 fronts and no rears, not terribly helpful, how long would it take for BMW to order some in, 25 days!! Hmmm.
Whilst we are there a chap turns up on a new GSA and we got talking to him He is Columbian, originally from Cali an now lives here, he advised us not to buy tyres in Ecuador as we will pay double what they will cost in Columbia.
So the sum of it all is that he took us to a motorcycle mechanic who has fitted the nearly worn out spares we have been carrying, to my bike and we should both get to Cali without problem and will buy tyres there.
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