Need some ideas urgently!?
 

Hi everyone, I arrived in Russia just over a week ago at the Norway border on my UK purchased Royal Enfield, I have been putting off any research and have just been hoping that it is going to be cheap and simple to get my bike back to Sydney.

I am in Moscow at the moment and will be entering Kazakhstan in about 5 days and will be going back into Russia and then to Mongolia, I was going to try my luck at the Chinese consulate but regardless of what happens there I will be going back into Russia and finishing in Vladivostok.

So the issue is I don't think it will be worth shipping my motorcycle back home to Sydney, mainly because it is a cheap bike, even though I am very attached to it, unfortunately I think unless there is a miracle it is going to be quite expensive to ship it home.

So my other option to me is selling it in Vladivostok for probably way less than I played for it, but my main concern is selling and being able to leave no dramas from Russia, I would like to visit Russia again so I don't want to sell it illegally, final question if anyone can help is that when I go back into Russia from Mongolia or hopefully China (probably not) can I/should I import the bike permanently and sell it that way? Not sure if that's possible or too expensive either.

Thanks for reading! As this has all only just dawned on me I stopped drinking and after a struggle with research i thought I would just post it here.

Riding to Oz
 

Hi Tim,

:welcome: to the HUBB.

The first thing that came to my mind when reading your questions was .... do you realise that today is 7th of October and you are going east into the winter ???

China. Give it a try. There are some border crossings in the west of Mongolia (North of Urumuqi) where somebody told me it could be done there, maybe you can make it to one of them before the snow gets too high or your Indian made bike stops to work because of the cold. But get a visa for China before you try to enter with your bike.

I entered China last year with my bike, but it was not easy (even harder to leave) ... here is where and how I did it.. (in spring, not in winter)

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...na-i-did-82852

Russia. As far as I know, to sell your bike legaly is not that easy and for sure you wont get a good price (but who knows?). I sold a bike in Magadan in 2003 and had no problems leaving, but a lot things have changed since 2003 in Russia. So hopefully somebody else here on the HUBB can tell you more about leaving Russia without the bike.

Why not sell it in Mongolia, it should be legal there and more easy (but this is just a guess, as I have never sold a bike in Mongolia).

But think positiv, you will enter China. Start drinking again if it gets too cold or the Chinese get too difficult.

Nashdarovje. Paca.

mika