Good news gentleman - flight to Valencia for May 17th is booked and IMTBike will have a BMW there waiting for me. Here is hoping to a warm May in the Alps and Romania
I did not exhaust every possibility of buying a bike myself, but all the ones I looked at were not stress/cost efficient. If I bought a bike, various restrictions on where I could take it arose (i.e. western nations have varying restrictions insurance wise of bringing bikes into Eastern Europe). In addition, securing insurance beyond minimum liability is difficult. To guarantee it for all nations I might visit was next to impossible. I couldn't take a 5-7k Euro risk if the bike was stolen in Serbia etc. It would have been a huge roll of the dice for minimal savings vs renting a bike, despite how expensive it is.
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