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Originally Posted by Mikester
Nick,
Peer,
Glad to hear that this may work for you. Let me know what you decide. If you want to leave from San Diego, you'll have a place to stay. I haven't really settled on any departure date yet, I have to stay in Vermont until June. Trying to save for this trip.
Mike
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Thanks for the offer Mike, that's very kind. I have actually considered buying a bike in the US and riding it down to Argentina, but I'm not sure what to do with it when I get there. Selling may not be so easy with a foreign registration. I thought I could get a cheap crappy bike, but then staying in one place for a while to get it registered and prepared would sort of defeat the plan of getting a cheap bike. Is it difficult to get a bike registered in Cal as a foreigner? I wouldn't mind dumping such a bike somewhere or selling is for small money. The thing is, I'm not a mechanic and I don't want to have too many problems with the bike.
So the other option would be getting a shiny new bike to take advantage of lower prices in the US. Which bikes are good and cheap in the US? I suppose the KLR650? I would then ship it to Europe after the trip, but I assume I'd have to pay import duty. Do you know anything about this?
Anyway, the current plan is to buy a KTM in Germany in January, prepare it there and fly/ship it over to wherever I'll start.
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