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Hi,

I need some clarification.

In my country, we need to do an annual technical inspection (I guess MOT) and renew the registration of the motorcycle.

If you are traveling abroad for a few years and your registration and inspection have expired how do you renew it or do you need to renew it?

Or do you just buy insurance at the country where you are traveling through?

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Pretty important to name the country, it is the United Arabic Emirates?

I don't know about your neighbouring countries, but for us Europeans, when you leave Europe (shengen zone) you have to get insurance at the border for the countries that you are visiting.
But it (probably) also means you don't have any obligations anymore for your home country (or in our case all of Europe) to pay tax, or have inspection or insurance.
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Well,
Yes at the moment my bike is UAE registered but I am EU/Croatian national.

I had in mind more generic question if you are traveling the world for let say 2-3 years, what are experiences, and of course, depends where is bike registered originally.

What is experience with EU countries?

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Pretty important to name the country, it is the United Arabic Emirates?

I don't know about your neighbouring countries, but for us Europeans, when you leave Europe (shengen zone) you have to get insurance at the border for the countries that you are visiting.
But it (probably) also means you don't have any obligations anymore for your home country (or in our case all of Europe) to pay tax, or have inspection or insurance.
Are you certain of not having an obligation towards home country?

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It depends greatly on where the bike is registered.

Here in Netherlands, just say you don't use it anymore (suspended, as if it is in a shed) and no annual inspection, no road tax and insurance (you buy local insurance) once your outside of Europe.
In other countries (I believe UK) you just stop paying tax.
I don't recall if it was Germany or Austria, but if you say you suspend your vehicle, you need to give your license plates, which is of course a deal breaker.

And in all cases it is very annoying when you are driving back into the country (or Europe) with that vehicle having no tax, no inspection etc (insurance you can usually arrange)

If your bike would be registered in UAE, then there may be some differences when it comes to visiting neighboring countries in the region. Your insurance may be valid in a neighboring country. Or they may even ask for annual inspection.

Usually, when you have left your region, you just get insurance at a border, nobody cares about the inspection of your vehicle (some exceptions of course) and maybe some country asks for a little road tax at the border.
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This links into another thread on the Europe section of HU - https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/europe/road-tax-in-europe-98592.

I don't think that any country is really set up to take account of people that are travelling for extended periods of time and now that the internet has given easy access to records of what is and what isn't certificated as road worthy in the vehicle's home country we are liable to get pulled when previously we wouldn't have as it dropped into the "too difficult" category. An ex-girlfriend lived in Russia and had a licence from there - when she got pulled for speeding when back in the UK she produced her Russia documentation - the police didn't proceed - too difficult.
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In theory vehicles should be legal in country of origin with registration/road tax, safety check and insurance but in reality it is often not possible to keep all of these up to date on long term trips usually because of the safety check/MOT test. The best you can do in this case is keep your bike roadworthy and looking in good condition and have local insurance, not perfect but for many of us it has been the only way.
Out of interest I can remember an Australian on here saying that he persuaded his registration office to accept a UK MOT as proof of roadworthiness when renewing his rego.
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I know that Dutch vehicles can be put through an MOT/yearly inspection in some selected garages in Spain. But that is really an exception.
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This links into another thread on the Europe section of HU - https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/europe/road-tax-in-europe-98592.



I don't think that any country is really set up to take account of people that are travelling for extended periods of time and now that the internet has given easy access to records of what is and what isn't certificated as road worthy in the vehicle's home country we are liable to get pulled when previously we wouldn't have as it dropped into the "too difficult" category. An ex-girlfriend lived in Russia and had a licence from there - when she got pulled for speeding when back in the UK she produced her Russia documentation - the police didn't proceed - too difficult.
That is good link.
Lots of gray areas anyhow

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