Moved: Can I buy a cheap bike in Buenos Aires?
 

Hi there

We are 2 New Zealand guys travelling to South America, Buenos Aires on the 17th February 2010.
I want to buy a cheap bike to ride for 5 weeks to Santiago before I head back to New Zealand and if my mate can sort out his full licence he will want to buy a bike to ride around South America for the next year or so.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Rob
Rotorua
New Zealand

Good to see you left yourself plenty of time for this, are you sure you are ready to do a ride down here?

Cheers
TravellingStrom

I think TS meant to say goood luck and have a look here

Hey there TS.

Ive done more than 23 countries in the last 2 years and if we can get bikes for this trip it would be great. We are hugely flexible with our plans and if I got 3 weeks riding out of 5 Id be chuffed. So if you have any helpful advice it would be cooler than your last paragraph of wisdom.

Gracias,
Rob
Seeking helpful advice
New Zealand

Yeah sorry m8, it just seemed to me asking this late in the day is a bit ambitious, but then I do like to organise things well ahead of time, just the way I am.

It would depend on what bike you want and I think the best bet would be to buy a Kiwi registered bike, to ease the paperwork along. Failing that, you would have to buy a loca registered bike, I cannot help with that.

I am in the process of selling a US reg bike to a US bloke, that is a lot simpler.

Good luck
TravellingStrom

Hi Rob
Welcome to the HUBB. I moved your thread to this sub-forum where more people are going to read it. Browse through the other threads here and you'll get useful info. Also look in the Bikes wanted/for sale forum. There are 1 or 2 posters whose comments you might want to skim-read (IMHO), but there's tonnes of useful, concise info on this site.

Trips don't need to be planned years in advance. Just make sure you have an idea on how paperwork issues can be sorted.

Enjoy your trip.
Chris

Ps
 

Rob
Just spotted you've put an ad in the Bike wanted section.
cheers
Chris

Hi you two!
There are no cheaps bikes for riding out here!
Any usable bike will be over the 4000 us range!Try to buy some other traveller bike.
Renting......to expensive
Good luck