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Well, I've never done it, but the two questions I'd have are:

1. Is it possible to register the bike in the country of origin from abroad? No registration means no insurance etc.

2. Can you get it across borders with no registration papers and stamps in your passport or papers to say you brought it into the country?

Just seems like a pretty bad idea to me; also, I wouldn't necessarily listen to the vendor as they have a vested interest in selling you the bike.

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Hmmmm.......read lots of conflicting advice on here about the ease/difficulty of this. Anyone reading this actually done it? - ie bought a bike of another foreign traveller and used it for further travel in South America??
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Well, I've never done it, but the two questions I'd have are:

1. Is it possible to register the bike in the country of origin from abroad? No registration means no insurance etc.

2. Can you get it across borders with no registration papers and stamps in your passport or papers to say you brought it into the country?

Just seems like a pretty bad idea to me; also, I wouldn't necessarily listen to the vendor as they have a vested interest in selling you the bike.

Sean

I bought a car from a traveller which was exported from the Netherlands and nowhere imported, it was stateless... Travelled up and down Africa and South America with it , no trouble at all. Thing is that no custom officer knows (even French Guyana and Suriname) what the documents look like in the homecountry.
Have also travelled with dutch registered vehicles. Stopped the yearly roadtax (houderschapsbelasting opgeschort). This can be done by a third party if you first have to cross Europe. You just take a copy of the registration documents.
If you want/need insurance outside Europe you can buy it localy, cheaper than in NL.
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sometimes (often) you CAN get insurance with someone elses papers depends on country Colombia for sure - the most important paper for the insurance is the import papers from the border - if you can get it in you can insure it.........I think, we did anyway........

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I bought a car from a traveller which was exported from the Netherlands and nowhere imported, it was stateless... Travelled up and down Africa and South America with it , no trouble at all. Thing is that no custom officer knows (even French Guyana and Suriname) what the documents look like in the homecountry.
Have also travelled with dutch registered vehicles. Stopped the yearly roadtax (houderschapsbelasting opgeschort). This can be done by a third party if you first have to cross Europe. You just take a copy of the registration documents.
If you want/need insurance outside Europe you can buy it localy, cheaper than in NL.
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You guys are right.. The people here have no idea about how does a paper should look in each country (neither do I..).
I got an insurance in Argentina, and the most important paper for it was the customs import form..

This way it`s kinda easy to travel-
Need a new valid date to your papers? Make a new one..
Lost your papers??? Print new ones..
Want to sell it to another traveller? Change the owner name and print a new one..

I sometimes get a weird look at customs because of the look of my papers, since they look so simple. I must say that I had the same look when I first saw them, but apparently that`s how they look in British Colombia.
If you put mine next to the original ones, you wouldn`t know which is more real since they both look exactly the same.
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