Buying a foreign bike in Colombia
Hello,
I've seen numerous posts for the sale of foreign bikes in Colombia and am interested in buying a non-Colombian bike to travel around Colombia and to other countries.
However after sifting through countless posts on how a sale process is done I am sufficiently confused.
There are posts on TVIPs, title issues, going to no-man's land, photoshopping, and other random things. Other posts point out that tourists selling to other tourists is easy.
Is there a simple standard way of doing this? How do I get the TVIP renewed?
Obviously I am not going to mail the title home, wait 6 weeks for it to get processed and then wait for it to get mailed back to me in Colombia.
It almost seems that I am better off just buying a bike from a dealer and not worrying about any of these issues.
Thanks in advance.
Matt
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