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G'day Jimmy,
Consider flying to the USA and buying a bike there, it's too easy to get a bike rego'd in your name, especially in Arizona, took me all of 5 minutes mate! Bikes are cheap and plentiful, no carnet required in all the Americas, no shipping apart form Panama to Cartagena and back, easy to renew your rego online! You'll save a small fortune, a mountain of paperwork, thievery in port charges and red tape, all the running round without wheels not to mention months of time waiting for the bike to rock up hopefully in one piece!
Ride from Alaska to Ushuaia, when you're done sell the bike, then fly to Europe and repeat!
Cheers Dave
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G'day Jimmy,
Consider flying to the USA and buying a bike there, it's too easy to get a bike rego'd in your name, especially in Arizona, took me all of 5 minutes mate! Bikes are cheap and plentiful, no carnet required in all the Americas, no shipping apart form Panama to Cartagena and back, easy to renew your rego online! You'll save a small fortune, a mountain of paperwork, thievery in port charges and red tape, all the running round without wheels not to mention months of time waiting for the bike to rock up hopefully in one piece!
Ride from Alaska to Ushuaia, when you're done sell the bike, then fly to Europe and repeat!
Cheers Dave 
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Thanks for the feedback, so being a tourist in the USA theres no issue with registration? I have been in Thailand and it was a massive headache.
My only issue is I guess buying bike and setting it up, but I guess just go to a camping store and buy all the shit you need.
So no Carnet needed on USA bike going into south america?
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only other issue is USA never got the Yamaha XT660
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only other issue is USA never got the Yamaha XT660
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Zero issues, from my experience, I'm also an Ozi. I literally couldn't believe how damn easy it was! Plus with a population of 328 million people, that's over 13 times the population of Oz, 13+ times more bikes right? There are zillions of bikes to choose from, fully set up or otherwise! Internal flights are pretty cheap too, fly buy n ride! I flew all over the shop, Florida, Washington, Iowa where I finally found the bike then rode to Arizona to get it rego'd for $90, cheap as!
All of Craigslist Craigslist is a good place to find bikes as is AdvRider ect ect ect! Bikes for Sale | Adventure Rider
Wander into any Walmart store (Take a cut lunch and a GPS, they're k'n ginormous!) and you'll be amazed at the prices of the camping gear, not to mention the amount of it and everything else you could possibly think of! The ease factor would have to rule out the, must have XT660 factor surely? Or surely you could think of another bike to do the trip on? And again, no carnet required for the Americas!
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1. So Arizona is the better place to get rego?
2. Did you have any issues with insurance on the bike?
3. Did you ride into Canada or south America?
Yeah don't Have to go the 650, could go the 1000cc or a KLX650
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1. So Arizona is the better place to get rego?
It definatley worked for me, you'll need an address ( I have mates there, backpackers address would work though ;-) ) In Arizona they have agencies for the DMV which I used, small office great girls which I tipped because they were awesome, I'd recommend using an agency rather than a DMV office! There are other states that are as easy, cant remember which ones though, just do a search on the AdvRider web page it's really informative and the inmates very helpful!
2. Did you have any issues with insurance on the bike?
Each country you'll need to purchase insurance! Shop around it changes a bit from time to time! Insurance companies will sell a policy to a dead rat if they could make a buck on it! In other words it's not that hard, other wise while on the road it can usually be done before, at or just after the border!
3. Did you ride into Canada or south America?
I went south, not sure about Canada I'm saving it for my next trip over that way. You'll have to do a bit of homework mate!
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