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Did anybody do it and did it was really easy or difficult ???

and for the other one who sold there bike any trouble ???

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you need to be much more specific if you expect any helpful answers...are you a resident of where you'll be buying the bike? where is the tourist from?

I've done it, it was a real pain, worked out OK for me but deficiencies with the paperwork remain
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I'm Canadian plan to go to Argentina.
Buy a bike from a tourist, who is registered in Canada or USA, do the paperwork and go.

I heard that it is more easier to buy the bike in Uruguay or Chile, but I just try to figure how other people do the the thing and learn fom their experience, you can send me a private message, if the answer is not good to tell to everybody ??
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Ah, Argentina, there is a long and controversial thread on this site about buying bikes in Argentina, and I think at least one thread on buying bikes from tourists from the US while in Argentina.

I did it on a different continent, but doing it in Argentina sounds like a huge pain, although you should probably find the existing threads and make up your own mind. You also might want to change the thread's title to specify Argentina.
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I bought a bike in Chile a few months ago - though I went with the new option. It was simple as pie once you knew how. It also helped that I had met Jens the master adventurer, who put me onto Horizons Unlimited, and we found the most helpful Honda dealer in Chile!

Check thread @: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...register-52368

One thing I will say though, had stumbled across a guy in my travels who bought a bike from fellow tourist. Unfortunately they didn't have the appropriate papers in order to register the bike in his name. Which meant he couldn't get title papers to allow crossing borders so he had to find the smallest, most secluded crossings in the hope he could cross and not have his bike confiscated by customs.

Lesson learned: if you buy a 2nd hand bike - make sure the papers are appropriately registered in the owners name, and you get the appropriate paperwork (i.e. a sale receipt). Then go to the registry to transfer it into your name ensuring the title ownership with the authorities is in your name. Easiest if you do that in the country the bike is registered.

If you aren't confident in Spanish, find somebody helpful who can organise to do all the transfer papers for you for a small fee - I paid around $USD20 for the service... Check with motorcycle dealers.

On the other hand, if you buy the bike new in Chile, be aware that the title ownership papers to cross borders can take up to 4 weeks (sometimes if you are lucky, it's earlier - you just need to go to the registry office, check, and pay a reprinting fee - I've forgotten the name in Spanish - sorry).
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selling bike in Argentina

I am planning to ride from my home in US to South America and when I am done riding and ready to return home, I am hoping to sell the bike and get on a plane. I was thinking I would just have to dump it at a used bike dealer (it is an 08' KLR650) and I would take what ever I could get for it. Yet it would be a great setup for a new rider flying in an buying my bike as it is all set up for the travel. I hadn't checked but I assumed it would be to costly to send back to my home.
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when you planning on selling and where I will be looking for a bike in BA mid march 2011
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I am going to keep this brief because, I know they do not like it when you talk about it here.

Every single Latin American border crossing that I did on my trip I used a color copy title and registration.

Think of the thousands of different possible kinds of titles a foreign traveler could have when pulling up to a Latin American border.

My Australian friend sold his KLR650 for dirt cheap to a Polish traveler who photoshopped his name onto the title, registration, and temporary import permit. They then rode to the nearest border and crossed together using the Polish traveler's paperwork.

The Polish traveler made it to Mexico where he had to sell the bike for dirt cheap and then continue by bus to the U.S.
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