Wouldn't bank on it
So,
Went through this a year and a half ago when my KLR lost it's shit in UB.
If you can get another travellers bike, arranged in advance somehow... then sure.
That'd work so long as you can get the paperwork.
Antyx has it right.
But the buying from the local bike market isn't amazing, most are lost causes left there by other travellers and the rest are former rentals that are past their days.
It's not that you can't buy one - it's that it probably won't make it to Europe.
I'm more than familiar with Chinzo above.
Wouldn't recommend him.
That 2002 BMW Dakar is a great example of why. It was sold for peanuts, years ago by a German who rode it there - I got a hold of the old owner and he said it was a write. Chinzo said it was all good, fixed as new and tried to sell it to me.
Bike was a total lemon.
I had a deposit down, got the paperwork sorted and then went test riding it - it didn't even last long enough to do that, before it shat itself halfway out to Tetserleg. I definitely wasn't getting to Europe on that thing - And that was the best bike of the lot when I was there!
Make of all that, what you will.
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