Which countries can I PARK my bike in temporarily?
 

Lots of people want to travel in "pieces" e.g. 3 weeks or 3 months on the road, park the bike, and continue later, next year, etc.

Please post where you are POSITIVE it's ok and for how long.

Canada - 12 months for sure, probably indefinitely as there is no check that you have left with it. When you LEAVE the country, there is NO check at all of you or the vehicle.

USA - same

Uruguay - 12 months

Officially, or what most people have been getting away with.

Argentina - from personal experience - up to 8 months provided you get an 8-month TIP on entry. Doubt whether that is according to the written law though.

Peru - by special application to Aduana with supporting medical or personal situation letter, we were granted 8 month suspension of the TIP.

Ecuador - said by FincaSommerwind that you can enter with the normal 90 day and then apply for a 180 day visa and then apply for the TIP to be extended to 180 days to match.

My garage in Ireland if you share your bottle of Jamieson s whiskey with me.

I've left foreign-plated bikes in Spain, Canada, Mexico and Argentina. Lots of other places I wouldn't hesitate to do so, but have no firsthand information.

In many countries where we can PARK our bikes in temporarily not necessary means that is accord to the laws. Sometimes as in Argentina is that nobody (usually) controls it when leaving without the vehicle. Normally the TVIP papers have a paragraph of the involved laws (maybe in small letters) so, people be aware!

RUSSIA

You can definitely leave your bike in Russia for the duration of your temporary import certificate, which you receive when you enter the country.

Typically these are issued for three months, but people should check.

Leaving a bike for longer than three months is possible under certain circumstances, but probably not feasible for most people and in any event:
1) the bike has to leave Russia at least once a year;
2) the temporary import cannot be extended beyond the duration of your visa or your right to stay under your visa; in other words if you have a three year visa but cannot stay in Russia longer than six months, you cannot extend it for more than three months, although you could then extend it again up to the one year limit.

I imagine French Guyana won't be a problem either as we never got any TIP or whatsoever.

I have temporarily stored my NZ-registered motorcycle - always for months at a time - in the following locations:

• Melbourne VIC, Australia
• Darwin NT, Aus
• Bali, Indonesia
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Pokhara, Nepal
• Tbilisi, Georgia
• Idilevo, Bulgaria
• Wroclaw, Poland

In Croatia legally you can leave the bike for 6 months, but since there are no controls maybe that can be even more.

cheers
Dooby

I have USA registered bikes stored here in my garage in Ireland for the past 3 years with zero issues.

Bolivia discussion here

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...14-month-84114

Best to continue it in this thread!

This also needs some extra information to be useful and that is whether your 'months at a time" exceeded the validity of the original TIP

Brazil, legally 24 month. Information from Receita Federal & Policia Federal.

Costa Rica, 12 months, 3.66 usd per day,

I would like to know more about Nepal: is it legal? For how long?

In my case, 4½ months - from December 2013 to April 2014.

Is it strictly legal to leave (temporarily abandon) a vehicle brought into a country under cover of a carnet? Well, I think that depends on (a) the country in question; (b) the rules of that country in place at the time, and (c) which particular official of that country - e.g. customs officer (or other official) - you talk to for permission .. if you indeed actually bother to ask for permission.

Regarding the Nepali system ? Hey it's Nepal .. therefore anything can happen!

Which countries can I PARK my bike in temporarily?
 

Colombia - you can get another 90 days permission for your vehicle to remain in Colombia but 90 only and only once. In theory you could leave Colombia and return to get another 90 days and use this newer permit (TVIP) to extend giving you 180 days in total. If you leave your vehicle longer than the permitted time you must return with the vehicle to this office where you will be 'sanctioned' i.e. fined, you could then leave Colombia and continue your trip with another 90 days or, as I understood, whatever time you have on your visa. If the vehicle becomes known to the authorities during the time that it is in the country without the owner it will be confiscated on the spot. If you are caught with the vehicle you have five days from thereon to report to the nearest office and pay the fine. After this the vehicle will be taken from you. The fine per month for an overstay is about 60,000 COL. I don't know if there is a maximum 'fine' or if it just ticks on forever. NOTE - if your vehicle is not worth exporting and you want a neat LEGAL way to be rid of it, you could simply drive it here [N 4°41.565', W 74°8.161' - Bogota Int. airport] on your way to fly out and abandon it voluntarily over to the Colombian government.

I will answer myself to my own question, and add some.

Nepal, under carnet, 6 months.

India, under carnet, 6 months.

Italy, legally 12 months, but, since there are no controls...

We recently left Tigger in ECUADOR for two months. Don't overstay the TVIP. The fine is $365 USD PER DAY.

For COLOMBIA, the usual permitted time is 90 days plus 90 days extension for the TVIP if needed and it's possible to leave the country and return no issues within that time and leave your vehicle in the country. Due to family illness back in the UK, I needed another 180 days on top of the extended TVIP. I talked to/emailed aduana in Medellin who were very helpful and granted the extra 180 days no problem. Tigger (our Triumph Tiger 800) spent almost one year in Colombia, five and a half months of that was whilst I was in the UK.

Saludos
Steve and Janette
Tiger 800 RTW - Two Brits and a Triumph Tiger 800 Round The World

See discussion on parking in GAMBIA


also anywhere in Central America

Customs weirdness in Peru
 

I got a 12 month import permit in peru, no idea why, it was 3 months the last time. Technically you are supposed to park it in bonded storage but I called the customs and they didn't care, I think it would only come up if someone else is riding your bike.

I recently discovered that Brazil no longer allows your bike to stay indefinitely, which complicates my plans to ride through Africa, Europe, and Asia next year in that I won't have the option to come back and ride the KLR back to Canada. It's hardly worth it in terms of the bike's value, but how cool would it be to ride it all the way back! I know I could nationalize it somewhere and store it there, but am hoping someone has another option they could share.

For the record, last year I managed to overstay my time limit in Ecuador by riding the bike to the Colombian border and handing in my paperwork as if I was leaving. I left it in a town close to the border and when I came back to Ecuador I just rode back to the border and did the paperwork again as if I was coming from Colombia. Riding without papers is risky but I was close enough to the border that it worked out fine.

Macedonia - 6 months max.

Mongolia - in a bonded warehouse, for a fee - 23 months, probably could've left them there longer.
Kazakhstan - in the KTM shop in Almaty, for a fee, 9 months, but could leave them longer.

UK or Spain
 

How long can you temporarily store your bike in Spain or the UK?

In the UK for six months is the official maximum. Practice suggests nobody worries if it stays longer in storage / irregular use. I suspect local police might show interest of they saw it obviously being used as local day to day transport. No knowledge of Spain

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I once left a bike in Spain for 8 months or so. It's not legal, but no one cares unless you give them reason to. Same in England, same throughout the EU. Just keep a low profile and try not to make any enemies.

Mark

Customs approval needed in Australia
 

If you want to store your vehicle in Australia while you leave the country you need approval from Australian customs to be obtained through AAA (see https://www.4ever2wherever.com/enter...tion=Australia). You need to provide departure date, place of departure, return date, reason for departure.

Do both of these countries have a TVIP?

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I rode an NZ registered Harley around UK (daily/only transport) on Kiwi plates for 12 months in 2001, then registered it in the UK as a 'returning resident' without needing to pay import charges.
I left the UK on many occasions for business travel (EU and back to NZ) during that time.
I thought 12 months was the legal limit, but subsequently found out it was six!
Whoops, what a terrible worry, too bad, so sad, never mind.
Never had any comeback.