Some persons I know also some friends of mine had to bring the bikes out from Mongolia ( and 2 from Russia ) for some reasons.
2 had bad luck and could not drive anymore, some bikes were not driveable.

You have the choice of bringing it out of Russia or Mongolia or just pay the tax.

If you have an accident and the car ist broken, you have the chance of show some papers, which proof that it is broken because of accident, you just need to find a Russian police office to help you with the customs ( to provide the paper )

In Russia it was always ok to fill in a low price for my bike on the temporary import.
But only last year at the border from Russia to Mongolia I got a female custom officer and she insistet on the price of 500.000 Rub on the temporary import of my bike.
This is about 7500 Euros, my bike is worth maybe 1000 Euros and the price she insisted on was more than what my old Transalp costed new in 1989.

So in case of a breakdown I would have had a lot of trouble getting through the custom stuff.

And the custom lady did not step back from this 500.000 Rub, I wanted to sit that out but no way. Either sign the paper or wait as long as I need to sign.....

In my case I would always need to bring it out, that is cheaper than to pay the tax.....

And If you drive with a car or bike to Russia or Mongolia, it can always happen that you have a breakdown for any reason, then you either need time or money.

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