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Originally Posted by Ron Youngs
3. Shipping a motorcycle from Vladivostok to Europe is quite expensive. Apparently some people have had success finding another rider who would like to ride the bike back for them. This sounds like a terrible idea to me.
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I've actually been thinking that it would be fun to do that... ride somebody's bike back for them. (I live in Estonia, but I'm fluent in Russian, which would obviously be quite helpful.) I think the biggest problem would be getting the paperwork to convince Russian road police that you have the right to ride that motorcycle, basically you need some kind of notarized letter of authority from the owner in addition to the other documents. The easier way would be for someone looking to do a Europe-to-Vladivostok trip to buy a bike in Estonia, where the paperwork is quite simple, and put the returning rider onto the paperwork as an "authorized user". Then cross the border at St. Petersburg.
Not that this is anything more than vague notions at this point... but if you're riding an old, cheap bike that you're not particularly sentimentally attached to, it might be a good way to get around the obligation to take the bike out of the country so that you get let back into Russia next time.
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