Good Morning Moaref, i have a nice& good working yamaha 750cc, fully equipped wit panniers, now for sale in Cali,Colombia.I left the bike at a friend's place when finishing my colombian trip at the end of last year. The bike has been legally imported from Belgium and is comfortable to travel with a passenger on the back. If you can message me your email address if can send you pictures and all the info you want. Enjoy Colombia and SA! best regards,Luc

ffathead
I PM'd you few questions about selling a bike here in Colombia. Just don't know if the PM's really work or not.
I'm trying to sell my DR here and would like some more details how it is done. Is the letter of sales enough to travel to other countries from colombia? And what about changing the name on TIP?
cheers

When i entered Equador nobody asked for the bike or wanted to see any documents so there it would be very easy to sell. In Columbia they ever registered the frame number directly from the bike:

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I just entered into Ecuador, and have a foreign buyer for my bike.

I was really tempted to not get it checked in at aduana, and try to ride it to its sales destination. I'm glad I didn't. I was stopped on the roads twice and asked to provide full documentation on the bike. They took photos of my plate and VIN as well.

I am hoping to get the title transfer and bill of sale notarized, so that I can cancel the TVIP properly.

I might be a little late for most of the people wanting to sell bikes in Colombia, however, I am interested in adventure ready bikes for sale. I live in Cartagena, but right now I am in Barranquilla checking out some bikes; no luck here so far.

Ffathead and JAIME H GUERRERO R (JHGR) I would like to personally ask you guys for some help. You both seem like great contacts in Colombia and willing to help a fellow motorcycle enthusiast get on two wheels. If you guys know anyone selling a bike anywhere in Colombia can you please contact me. I'm a new member to the Hubb so I can't PM you, but please contact me. Here is my post that I put up in the travel bike sale/wanted forum here on the hubb...

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ke-south-75425

Thanks everyone and happy trails.

-Stephen

Hi ffathead,
I'm new to Horizon and can't PM. Im trying to answer the same question 'how to sell a foriegn registered bike in Colombia to a traveller. The DIAN have told me it can't be done because my name is on the temporary import, so I have to be the one who leaves with the bike. I've been in and out on it before, so I've had a brain wave. What if I could sell it in no man's land at the frontera, if I had a second registeration document in the buyers name. I could stamp out of Colombia, do the deal with the buyer and he could enter Ecuador with new papers. This plan would work best with a Brit. I'm English and the bike's a British reg BMW F800GS 2010 23,000 miles. If anyone's interested.
ffathead whats your way?

Harliec, that's the way it's most commonly done--usually including some use of image-editing software--although of course no one here would ever use these forums to advise doing anything illegal....right?

Were someone to proceed down this path, they'd certainly want to think it through carefully. The goal is for the buyer to end up owning the bike legally so that they can import and export it down the road, insure it when necessary, and eventually sell it legally themselves to whoever's next in line. Exact procedures for making that happen depend in part on the bike's current documentation and on procedures for transferring ownership in its country of origin. This varies greatly by the country (and, in the USA, the specific state) where the bike is registered. To some degree it also varies by the nationality and current location of the buyer.

It should be obvious that a certain degree of trust between buyer and seller is going to be necessary. I'll add that it should be equally obvious that risk tolerance varies greatly from one person to the next, and that this ingredient will be key in many transfers.

Of course there are always alternatives. If you're traveling in South America, you've probably had local people approach you asking to buy the bike on the spot. Sometimes these offers are genuine (and of course, sometimes they're definitely not!), although always fraught with all sorts of uncertainties. And it's my understanding (based on hearsay, not direct experience) that there are a few areas in Chile, perhaps Panama, and possibly elsewhere where bikes can legally be sold. Some details can be found by searching this site and reading with a sharp, critical eye.

Hope that's helpful.

Mark

British-reg vehicles are quite easy to swap registrations regardless of the new owner's nationality PROVIDED the current owner is happy to share his address with the new owner. Current owner does need to return the registered keeper document and notify the registry of the new owner so new registered keeper papers can be issued. Also the new owner has to SORN the vehicle as well and that can also be done via the internet. The license plates remain the same so swapping in no mans land is a lot easier once only one sheet of paper is swapped.

Still complicated, but a lot easier than for instance, trying to get legal ownership of an EU or Swiss vehicle, or one from British Columbia.
and I'd say this goal is achieved less than 10% of the time.

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Hi everyone! I'm English living in Colombia and am trying to find out if there is anyway that I could sell my English registered F800GS. The short answer is no, but I had a thought 'maybe it could be sold in no man’s land at Rumichaca between Colombia and Ecuador, if we had a registration document in the buyers name. I would have left Colombia with the old registration document and the new owner could enter Ecuador with the new one and continue travelling south. A devilishly clever plane. Could it work?

Thanks markharf. All I need now is a potential buyer. If anyone hears of anybody looking to start their trip in Colombia between now and February 2016 please let them know I'm selling.
This bike is the same as mine with the same mileage http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/32189...508&rmvSB=true

hi ffathead, why not to share the info with everyone here?that is what this forum is for .cheers

Hi,
I found a bike for sale in Columbia that was registered in Ontario, Canada which I have now purchased. I was able to get registration sent to Canada and transferred into my name and have arrived in Medellin with Canadian plates and registration. I tried to get SOAT for the bike but I wasn't able to do so as the bike is not registered in Columbia (I didn't get a temporary permit from the previous owner).
Not sure what I can do now, is it possible to get other insurance other than SOAT?

Appreciate the advise, Peter

Mate, hate to break it to you but if you don't have the temporary import permit there's no point in getting insurance. The bikes not legally in the country without it. I'd get that permit asap, and hope it's not expired. Then you'll need to either do a border run to change the plates or get insurance on the original plates until you've crossed borders (you know that you need to change the plates between borders...)

I'd say don't ride it around until you've got the permit and the SOAT and definitley don't stick the new plates on.

Don’t ride the bike, per the above. If all else fails, try shipping it elsewhere—at least as far as a border.

I’m thinking you really want to find out whether it entered the country legally in the first place. If not, you could ship it to wherever the Stahlratte docks these days and import it with the next load of bikes they deliver. If the bike is listed as already temporarily imported but never exported, this might get the bike confiscated (or worse).

If there’s an open TIP, you want to get your hands on it, whatever that takes. And if there’s any chance the bike was stolen—i.e., not registered to the person you bought it from—you might as well learn that without putting yourself at risk. Think things through before acting.

First time I rode in Colombia I didn’t buy insurance. At roadblocks I’d show my policy from North America, which hadn’t expired yet. That seemed to work just fine, although it’s not recommended. Second time, I was required to purchase at the border, which was also fine. YMMV.

Last idea is to figure out what a local would do in this situation. There are usually workarounds to almost any situation in Colombia, but you need to find someone who knows the system and how to get things done. I’d ask Mike at Motolombia, but there are others who post here or on ADVrider.com.

Oh, and in the future try to be a bit less credulous. A person trying to sell you something is not always on your side.

Hope that’s helpful.

Without a TIP, you can ride it out of Colombia to Ecuador without checking the bike out. You arrive at the border, leave gear witht the bike, stand in line to stamp out(passport only) of Colombia then ride to Ecuadorian side and ask of an Ecuadorian TIP as you stamp in.

Altought not legal, I know a few who have done this successfuly.

Be aware that if you do get pulled over without a TIP that will be the end of your ride.

Also ask the seller to hand you the TIP if its still valid. Get a poder to authorize you to ride "his" bike in Colombia. That way yopu can leagally ride it in Colombia.

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