Travel trough south America

[Waal]

We want to travel with our motorbike trough south america. We want to begin on the top like Colombia or Suriname and drive to buenos aires. Our plans are really fesh so we have a lot of questions.

- drive with our one motorbike or buy a motorbike at Colombia or Suriname.
- We read also a story about buy a motorbike from a traveller in the country were you want to start but how it is working with the papers? And how easy is it to sell wen we finished our travel?

Can someone help us? And other idees are welcome of course!!

[mossproof]

If you want to travel through several countries, I think flying your bike out makes a certain amount of sense. There are lots of posts on this forum about buying a bike in a country where you are not resident, and the paperwork involved is usually quite hard - you never know if you have got it right until you hit the border and try to leave.
Buying a bike from another traveller is also a gamble, unless you are British, and can transfer the ownership documents online and make the physical handover at a border (in no mans land so it leaves the country with one owner and enters the next with a new one).
I will happily be corrected by anyone who's done it successfully, and I know it can be done in Peru, but be very wary elsewhere. Plenty of folk will take your dollars and run, leaving you with a bike you can't use or sell.