Hi guys I'm Australian and have a Honda TUF125 which I've ridden from Santiago to Colombia. I need to fly home soon and have no idea what to do with my bike. I don't need to sell it for money, I just need a way of leaving the bike with no problems if I come back to Colombia at a later date. Any advice would SO appreciated!!!

I will help as I can. We left our two NX400s in Colombia due to injury from a fall in southern Colombia and subsequent trip to Spain and the States for medical care. We had to get special permission from the port of entry and DIAN - customs. We also had to find storage and a responsible party. We followed all legal procedures, were issued official permission and had no problems leaving the country and then returning many months later and riding our bikes out of Colombia. The Colombians were most helpful even though we were pre last election and roads were blockaded around our town in southern colombia getting an ambulance through the barricades was the difficult part and the ambulance took incoming stones and fists were beat on the sides through all seven roadblocks put in place by the coffee growers and miners.... - which sort of gave the whole affair an Indiana Jones feel. These demonstrations had little to do with our situation, it was a national political disturbance.

Need to know:

How long will it be, from the time you leave for home until you can collect your bike and get it out of Colombia? How long is left on your current TVIP? Where is the bike registered? Do you have a clean title? Is the bike insured?

We found excellent inexpensive and legal storage in southern Colobia, an imprint - sort of a paper tracing over the vin # was made by an authorized person and copies of everything - titles, plates , passports, entry permits , insurance etc had to be presented to the DIAN with
a very good reason for why you were leaving the bike in Colombia and then photos of the bike and exactly where it is stored and the name of a responsible party who is looking after the bike and you must sign papers that the bike will not be ridden, sold etc. There is more, but need your data before continuing.

There might be official parking in Bogota - we left our bikes with a private party as could not ride the bikes to Bogota due to mentioned injury. All seems to revolve around the DIAN in Bogota and if you are departing from there, I would go directly to the DIAN there.

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