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Originally Posted by mollydog
No matter where you ship, it's going to be at least $2000 usd, maybe more.
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Shipping is definitely a major PITA on a long trip. But it´s not always at least $2000 usd and up, not even when you send across the oceans.
An example: my DL650 from Sydney to Helsinki cost me a bit less than 700 euros, and that´s total including everything at both ends. This was almost 6 years ago, though, so add 10-20%. It was sent by sea, and took nearly 2 months to arrive. But this is nearly 10.000 miles as the crow flies.
Also heard a friend sent his 1200GS by air from Buenos Aires to London for less than 1000 euros, by air. This was two years ago.
One problem with shipping is, that there is no fixed price, or fixed anything. Sending motorcycles by freight is so uncommon, that every shipment will be an individual case. Means that if you´d now send the same bike on the routes that I mentioned, it depends on at least a hundred things, how much exactly you will end up paying. And in the case of sea shipment, how long it´ll take.
But of course you CAN do it either way: you send your own bike, or you buy locally. Both methods will have their own ups & downs.
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