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Old 19 Apr 2012
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Uhm....Croatia is NOT part of the EU , ( at least not for another year or so).
Apologies, I thought they signed up at the start of this year.
Certainly they joined NATO a while back which is always used as a precursor to joining the EU.

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Croatia is a dream for motorcycles with foreign plates. The official police policy is to not chase motorcycles with foreign plates. This means that you can only be stopped if you actually stop (or crash). I was in heavy traffic once and could not get away, so I paid a spot fine of about 30 GBP. The cops are open to negotiations. They said I ran a red light (It was YELLOW), but we settled on a charge of "obstructing a pedestrian" (??) which had a lower fine. The cops were very friendly and actually wanted to chat with me about my trips.

This policy will eventually change and is thoroughly abused by all the Germans and Austrians motorcyclists that come to the coast during the summer. Until then, come this way and enjoy the amazing coast and total lack of traffic enforcement.
Sounds like the Balkans of the 1990s.

but take care on those coastal roads; they used to be surfaced with limestone aggregate which is as polished and slippery as a slippery thing can be (limestone is not permitted in road surfaces in the UK); add in rain and/or a bit of oil on the surface and you have an even slicker surface.
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This policy will eventually change as is thoroughly abused by all the Germans and Austrians motorcyclists that come to the coast during the summer.
Bloody German hooligan motorcyclists!! Ruining it for all the other hooligan motorcyclists in the world who want to go to Croatia and ride like a hooligan!
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Bloody German hooligan motorcyclists!! Ruining it for all the other hooligan motorcyclists in the world who want to go to Croatia and ride like a hooligan!

Can you imagine....the sheer nerve some people have, trust those Germans to ride road legal and insured vehicles in someone else's country.....thereby avoiding finishing up behind bars, (in Croatia, just like anywhere else in europe, Balkans or not...)

It's good to know that I don't need to bother taking my green card with me every weekend when I go riding in Croatia....obviously it's not like it gets checked at the border anyway...stupid of me to even think of paying for it in the first place..

Oh and I must seriously be meeting the wrong Croatian policemen ..... as well as probably dreaming about the occasional spot checks (where the aforementioned green card was certainly asked for), as well as the zero tolerance for drunk driving..... etc etc...
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Hmm, you seem a little angry? Maybe I cut you up or scraped your paintwork or something last time I was riding in Croatia about 6 years ago, whilst riding drunk on my non-road-legal bike without insurance? etc..
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Hi Nath.....Hehe.....just taking the piss.... let me know next time you're down here and we can go and ride around like hooligans together.

Oh and extremely great blog by the way, I was up last night reading it all.

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Cut the crap
Sorry havent read the post all the way througt - fell asleep.

Point is -you want to sell a UK bike that hasent been SORNed.
No probs.
Sell it as norm.
DVLC do not chase up out of SORN vechicles especicualy out of the country
Been there got the "T" shirt.
I could go into the details, but at this time of night - I can't be ****ed.

But ,i you think I,m lyeing I will offer you 25% of your bikes value.


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As someone else out of country with a UK bike ( though insured but sorned) - I would sell the bike in the Balkans or in Romania - you will get a better price for it than in UK.

Have a ride over to sremska mitrovica - Serbia on 4/5 may - best party of the year MC Srem - can introduce you to some of the local crew who could help - and you can park the bike up with a for sale notice!!
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Ok...back on topic, sorry everyone.

The OP is getting some good advice, apparently the british official side isn't of much concern , why should the dvla bother to chase up someone who doesn't live in the Uk anyway ?

I already suggested Slovenia, out of convenience to the OP. It's an EU country, the capital is less than an hour away from Zagreb, there is a good market for used bikes, and buyers are more than happy to take care of importing, since unlike for Croatia there is No Import Tax.

It's true, Serbia and Romania are also great, the second one especially , because it's also in the EU.

To repeat what I said earlier: just put the bike up for sale locally, and you're sure to get it sold, for at least as much as you'd get in the UK. If things are as you say with your friend's father then who cares about what happens in britain?

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