just checked the paperwork, tax runs out in 2 days :-(
guess i will SORN it now.

OK, now it's the road tax and MOT that limit the time. You can SORN it and save on paying road tax, taxing it later to ride it here but it can obviously only be MOT'd in UK. Linzi. ps, not an expert, rather a victim of DVLA!

therein lies a problem I suspect because you need an MOT to re-tax it, and the MOT expired on october 17th.

Hm, can you contact me by e-mail? Linzi.

Best wishes to Damien and respect to Linzi for his kind offer.

However, can I suggest an alternative. What about bringing the bike back to the UK and raffling it with the proceeds going to the owner, maybe at £10 a shot as I suspect both Damien and his family need the cash more than a bike right now. Nice gesture though.

BTW, if it still has some MoT left on it, applying for a tax disc through Website of the UK government : Directgov should be no problem. Most insurers will cover you 3rd Party on a bike not registered in your name providing you have the registered keepers permission to ride it. You'll have to check if this is still valid outside the UK though.

Best of luck.

Hey Craig76, that's a good idea. I have a contact in Turkey who runs trucks around Europe and there's a likelihood of a super cheap berth for the bike that way. I'd need to move it to a place on his route out there. Linzi.

Craig76, well I haven't had an e-mail from Fattomy yet but have spoken to a friend and we've got a legitimate way of getting the bike to a cross channel ferry from where he can pick it up in a van. So Damien's property, but if the go ahead is given maybe it will be raffled, perhaps with a special livery to the panniers? At least a photo album to go with it. Where there's a will there's a way. Linzi.

Hi folks, I just read elsewhere Grant saying we should keep mails public if possible for benefit of all. Quite right. So: Tony is back at work, the registration document and letter of permission to ride bike are en route from Australia. Thanks to information on HUBB I now know it is legal to ride the UK registered bike from Montenegro to UK while SORN registered, with no MOT or road tax. It is out of UK so none applies. It will be insured on my policy as a second bike and is registerd--all OK. Simple, I thought. Fly to Split, bus to bike and ride back. But, no winter flights to Split on easyjet as of yesterday! JUST too late. Onto moneysavingexpert.com and found a ticket to Dubrovnik which is even closer. Now need to find out what HRK 1,750 are worth in pounds! Ordered a Montenegro map 1:250,000 from stanfords and am hoping the electrically heated vest I ordered comes in time or I shall be one cool dude on the road! The intention is to for Tony and myself to write an article for a magazine and cover the trip costs and some of his costs at time of accident. This is the little we can do to help poor Damien. I hope we can get him a reasonable price for the bike. (wonder if I could do a bank job en route and buy it myself?) My back was giving me agony after working on my own bike's gearbox but it seems OK now so it's just a case of getting on the plane all kitted up, hugging a winter sleeping bag, bivi bag and map. Happy travels all, Linzi.

I spoke to Damien again this morning. He is sounding more positive. Being back home has alot to do with it i think. Some of our good friends have been to visit him in the last week. It's a tough road ahead for him but he knows the worst is over. The infections in both ankles appear to be under control now. He is scheduled for surgery on both knees later this week. I'm in the process of putting together a small photo album for him to remind him of the awesone trip we had. After the accident I'd kind of forgotten about the rest of the trip until I started sorting through my photos.
The wheels are turning for the documents though I'm not sure if they're in the post yet.

Where's he at in Oz? If it's around Melbourne, I'll stop by in a couple weeks.

-Dave

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Hi, I'll e-mail Tony as I don't know. It has only now dawned on me how bad his injuries are. He'd sure value a visit, I'm certain. I'm trying to offer a positive gesture to raise his spirits. Linzi.

Damien is in the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane

I've got a friend in Brisbane who told me to stop by, so I might swing by. If so, I'll bring him a dozen monkeys from India to cheer him up. He can arrange monkey knife fights.

-Dave

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That's good news, cheer him up by all means but don't pull his leg! Linzi.

That would be great Dave, he loves monkey knife fights and I'm pretty sure the Wesley hospital has a special arena for monkey knife fights.As I recall, it's the only hospital in the Southern Hemisphere with such an arena.

His address is
Damien Daniel
Room 1, ward IM
Wesley Private Hospital
Coronation Drive
Brisbane, QLD, 4000

Linzi- the documents are in the mail.