Buying a bike in Ukraine
 

My Drz was stolen a few days ago in Kiev (post in hubb pub) which has put a big spanner in the works for my plan to make it to magadan.

What I'm wondering is if anyone has experience of buying a bike in Ukraine and taking it across the Russian border? Flying back to Ireland and starting from scratch will put me under a lot of time pressure to beat winter by the time I source, register and cover the mileage back to here.

I'll post something similar in the Northern Asia forum in case its possible in Russia.

Thanks
Tadhg

hmmm did you find anything out?

consider also buying in other parts of East Europe

Not possible to register it unless you are a Ukrainian resident. Can be bought in a Ukrainians name and taken across the border with a notary letter though.

I've gone the stupid route and I am travelling via train and bus via moscow to aktobe where I'm picking up a Honda C90 kindly offered by a fellow Hubb member and continuing on that if I can get across the Kazakh border without it being confiscated. Bit of a difference to my Drz400!

The log book will still be in his name so best to get the owner to photo copy a page of there passport on A4 paper along with him writting and signing it to say he allows you to ride his bike and scan/email it across

Its a foreign bike with a foreign rider so with this you should be ok, well you would hope so

Better than nothing

Transfer of ownership should already be in progress at home. Irish registration is an easy enough affair and when a friend rang to explain my difficulties they promised to expedite it.

For the time being I have a "corrected" scan of the current logbook which will hopefully tide me over until the border. The C90 has overstayed its customs welcome so that will be my biggwst hurdle but if I can get to Kyrgyzstan it'll all be good.