After arriving in LA we place our tent into the Prado Regional Park close to the dealership in Corona. The mild weather offfers a good opportunity to test our camping gear. At 9:35 on monday morning we set foot into Corona Motorsports, the dealership where we bought our bikes. Surprisingly, Fred, our contact person greets us with "you must be Bjoern and Ines". Ok, Bjoern talked to him quite frequently on the phone over the last few months. Fred shows us around. And really, the bikes and all parts are there. Registration is also done in a couple of minutes. Fred leads us to the workshop where we'll spend the next two days equipping the bikes with new suspension, tank and aluminum pannier boxes as well as radio communication and GPS. As Bjoern practiced all assembly operation on Ines' bike at home, everything goes well. We even brought most of the needed tools with us. In addition the mexicans, Victor and Miguel of the Corona workshop, provide us with a Drill, Saw and an assembly stand for the bikes.
On our second day we figure that a set of mounting parts for the pannier boxes are missing. After a brief call to Ed from Happy-Trail in Boise, Idaho the missing parts are on their way by UPS over-night-express.
Checking our emails, we realize that our website www.thebundschuhs.de is not working anymore. While we are dead tired after two full days of working on the bikes, our website administrator Tomy, currently in Australia, is starting his working day and has the problem fixed within minutes.