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Originally Posted by Paul holmes
Does anyone know the process for foreigners buying and registering motorcycles in UK?
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Paul:
This is a long-shot and a very speculative suggestion, but it might be an answer and it shouldn't take you too long to figure out whether it is possible:
Could you buy the motorcycle in the UK and then register it (plate it) in your home country of Australia? If that is possible, then you would have a non-European registered motorcycle and you could then purchase the well-known and bog-standard liability coverage - the "Green Card" insurance - for out-of-Europe motorcycles to give you the insurance coverage you need to ride legally. That insurance is cheap, about €70 a month or so, and is available from several different vendors (all at different prices - see the posts made in the last two years on the discussion This is where you get the cheap European insurance).
Once you have finished your trip, you could sell the bike in the UK very easily because it is a UK spec machine and therefore meets the safety standards (lighting, emissions, etc.) set by the UK government.
Be aware that although Australia requires carnets if you temporarily import a non-Australian registered vehicle into Australia, none of the Western or Central European countries, or Morocco, require a carnet for an Australian registered vehicle. Since you will never be importing the moto to Australia (only plating it there), you won't need an Australian carnet if you are allowed to put an Australian plate on it.
Michael
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