Buying a bike in Lithuania
I am going to Anykščiai, Lithuania for August Bank Holiday and thinking of making a little European tour out of it. I have 3 weeks to play with. My first thought was to ride there and back from UK, going fairly directly through Netherlands, Germany and Poland, spend a couple of days with friends exploring Lithuania, then amble back south through Slovakia, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, France, about 3600 miles.
Although that's easily do-able (averaging 200 miles/day), I started wondering if I could make more of the available time and see more of the eastern countries I've not visited previously by flying out and buying a bike while I'm out there. Would this be straightforward (it's all in the EU)? How easy is it going to be to find a suitable and affordable bike? My ideal would be something like a DRZ-400S, but I gather that's not widely available. Would I have any difficulties getting it registered/licenced/taxed/insured as a non-resident? And if I rode it back to the UK, how easy would it be to re-sell it or re-register it here?
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