Best bike sales website
 

Hello all and apologies if I am not in the correct forum to ask this! I am trying to get a feel for bike options and prices in Europe. I'm at the start of a plan to travel north Africa for a while. Which website is best to get a over-view of what bikes are available and gauge of prices? Thankyou!

Where do you live? Are you an EU resident? Do you have a permanent address in Europe?

https://www.autoscout24.com/motorcycle/ is a good start, but the ability to actually register a vehicle in your name is wildly different across Europe.

In the UK I would say ebay.co.uk Their search facility is quite good as well, you can rank or filter to narrow it down to the sort of thing you're after. Bear in mind we're coming into autumn now, bike prices are lower but availability is starting to drop as well as people put their bikes away until spring.

Hello AnTyx, I'm not an EU resident and do not have a permanent address in Europe. I'm just trying to get an idea of what is available and ball-park figures on cost of bikes. I will then have the non-resident issue to deal with...

Thanks for the advice Tomkat!

Sorry, but you need to be thinking the other way around ... find out where you can buy a bike first and then find out what people there use to find bikes. If I remember correctly there's only Ireland and Estonia (?) that allow non-EU residents to buy an EU motorbike, I have no idea what's most popular in those countries.

Different countries have different bike prices and availability BTW

Spain is also possible although you need to get both a tax file number (NIE), and complete a process called empadronamiento, which is basically registering an official address. I think spain requires biennial inspections and the market there depending on the type of bike one is looking for is actually quite reasonable. For practical purposes Ireland may be the easiest, I think as of yet yearly inspections are not required the owner just needs to pay for yearly registration. If the owner is likely to want to keep it outside of the EU for an extended period or perhaps sell it without needing to return to Europe to transfer ownership that should also be considered. Another option worth considering is looking for a vehicle registered in Canada or USA, that is in Europe already but that the owner is interested in selling. In that case either using it with a power of attorney, or if it is registered in a state or province that allows non-residents to transfer ownership without physically presenting the vehicle and does not require yearly inspections. This website has such vehicles listed reasonably frequently and often at quite fair prices. One other idea is a UK registered bike that is outside of UK, but on SORN status.If this is the case it can generally be registered in a foreigners name, but it will be difficult to insure. If the buyer is using it in areas that sell border insurance or do not require insurance it may be possible to manage that way.

FWIW, buying a bike in the UK is easy. You only need an address to register it to, as that's where the title documents and traffic fines get sent to ;) It can be a friend or relative and the transfer of ownership is free and can be done quickly online.

The biggest problem - and this is the case with pretty much every country - is getting insurance. Very few insurers will cover anyone who doesn't have a licence from their country, and the few that do will charge a lot for it. You can't legally ride, and you can't buy road tax without insurance of course.

UK insurance will cover you to ride in the EU for 90 days in any 180. I think there are restrictions on how long a UK bike can stay in the EU in any case. Brexit really fouled so much up.

+1 on autoscout to get a feel of the market


italy has a great offer of dual purpose bikes in all price levels.


In my early years here when i still didnt have my residence, I just asked a friend to own it for me....