Well Martin, welcome to the HUBB. It sounds like you have experience of how things work in Colombia. What the law says or one person's advice dictates is very often different to how things actually work out. What kind of visa do you have?
My first bike was imported numerous times with temporary permission on the back of 60/90 day tourist stamps. The period of entry dictates the period of entry for the bike too. With other visas eg; investment and rentista visas, I am led to believe, (we shall soon find out for sure), that an initial period of 6 months is given on importation and that you will then be able extend that by a further 3 months at DIAN. After the 9 months is up, you then have to at least nominally leave the country with the bike.
This is the experience of one person leaving at the Cucuta border control. I intend leaving and re-entering at the Ipiales border control early July. This bike currently has importation permission in some else's name, so we shall see.
You cannot import "permanently" to Colombia
Hope that helps on the importation issue.
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