a bike is a disposable consumer good
It seems to me that you have two logical options .
A - Use the bike for touring in N America and then sell it .
B - Be creative about importing the bike to the UK . You COULD locate a KLR frame at a breaker's yard or private individual in Britain . Then dismantle the new KLR in Canada .Ship it into Blighty in several large packages over a period of time .
Then rebuild the bike onto the old KLR frame ,thereby utilising the old frame number for registration purposes .
Ebay will take care of any surplus parts .
The Irish guys used this method years ago so that they could buy Range and Land Rovers without having to pay exhorbitant taxes ,they would come over to England with an old Rangie have it stripped down to the chassis frame , refurbish the frame ,then plop on the body from a new vehicle ,refix the number plates and drive back to the Emerald Isle with a brand new {old } vehicle .
[And then some enterprising individual in England would have a brand new frame and a shed full of old Rangie parts to build an off-road racer .]
But of course you never heard any of this from me - right ?
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Last edited by Dodger; 12 Apr 2007 at 18:18.
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