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Buying bike in California and shipping it in Filadelfia

Hi everyone.

I´m new here. I´m an spanish biker (sorry for my bad english) and I was looking up some information about my next trip when I found this place. It´s great!! We are thousands!!

Ok, what I want to do is to fly from Madrid to San Francisco on the fith of november and buy there a bike (I´m thinking about the BMW GS800 or the GS1150 or the GS1200, my actual bike in Spain), ride the country for 50 days and fly back to Spain from Filadelfia sending the bike too by plane or boat. I always ride alone.

My questions are: anyone knows if in California are any official dealer who could sell demo bikes or preowned BMWs with official guarantee and how much can they cost? As a foreigner, is easy to buy new bikes in USA? How can be the weather in the east cost in december?

Of course, I have a lot of more questions, but I will write them here in the next weeks, while I am riding the USA.

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Hello Miquel, I sent you a private message click on "Private Message" top right of this page. I have a friend in California that could help you out there. I live in Pennsylvania and will help you here.


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