Egypt to Europe Roro Woes

[thedude400]

Howdy folks. Been taking advantage of the info here for a LONG time, but just having to make my first post today. You guys are amazing.

I'm a U.S. volunteer living in Lesotho, hoping to take a one-way trip on some old modified Suzuki Bandit 400s up to Egypt come January. Planning about 3 months up to Egypt with 2 other young volunteers. It's an ambitious undertaking, our biggest obstacle of course, being our volunteer salary.

I was told by the AA of South Africa that selling the bikes in Egypt would be positively imossible, unless we wanted to forfeit the carnet deposit, which unfortunately isn't an option for us. I, like many others, made the admittedly dim-witted mistake of assuming the Alexandria-Venice ferry would be running again come october. As selling the bikes in europe would be much easier, I told myself our plan was made. Suddenly, with Visemar pulling out of Egypt, the ground has fallen out from my feet and I'm trying to assemble other options.

Our budget is tight, so i'm trying to analyze all our options to decide what would be best for a plan B. Unfortunately, we do have Budget and Time constraints, so traveling overland to europe isn't an option.

My questions:
1. If we did decide to RoRo the bikes to Italy and fly ourselves, how much could we expect to spend on 3 400cc bikes and ourselves?
2. How difficult would it be to sell the bikes in Israel?
3. Can you seed some other ideas and give recommendations as to how we could sell the bikes before returning home from our journey?

Thanks to you all in advance. Living in the mountains, internet access is limited, but i'll try to check in as often as possible. Cheers.