Hello! Me and my wife just knew about you when planning a motorbike trip around Black sea.
We are from Brazil and will be at Europe next august. We would like to use your services to buy and keep two motorbikes for next trip and keep them for future ones. Our next trip is a long loop around black sea crossing places like Poland, Ukrania, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Albania, Slovenia, Austria and Germany. I'm telling the places just to have more information about green card, we don't really care about insurance for our bikes except third party ones.
Can we have the bikes on our names? Looking forward to hear about you. Best regards

Picking up your bike on Sunday

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Hi Wheatwhacker, this is my first post - hope I'm doing it right! Your service sounds like just what I need! After flying out from home (Australian citizen) I am planning a 6 month ride through various European countries and also some non-European countries - starting late April 2015.

My first question is whether a bike purchased through you in Ireland can be ridden through to all the European countries (subject to insurance) including Croatia, Greece and Hungary and also non European countries such as Turkey, Iran, Morocco and Mauritania?

I am thinking the bike may have to stay within the EU. Is that correct? Maybe there is some way around this - perhaps a carnet? Anything else? My plan would be to return the bike to Ireland for resale then fly back home from there.

Regards, Gordon

Hi Gordan.
You are free to take the bike anywhere in the world you want as long as the bike in in your name, which it will.
Many riders have been to Russia without any issues.

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Is this a one-business thread, or can others chime in?

Foreigners can buy a vehicle in Estonia, BUT you need a local resident to go on the registration as a "responsible user". You'll still be there as the owner, of course, and you can put several people as allowed users on the reg.

No regular/annual vehicle tax at all, you just pay the registration fees.

Inspections are issued for up to 3 years on newer vehicles (up to 10 years old), for 1 year after that. Would be quite difficult to actually fail an inspection on a bike.

Insurance - hard to say exactly, but for me liability-only was ~40 euros for 8 months. Includes free green card (valid throughout most of Europe).

Almost all classified ads and most used-bike dealer offers are visible on mototehnika.ee - motorcycles and powersport vehicles, or auto24.ee - new & used vehicles for cars. It's also possible to import a bike from elsewhere in the EU for not much money - mobile.ee is a local front-end for the EU-wide mobile.de site and will quote you a final price with delivery to Estonia.

I'm not a business doing this, just providing useful information.

Slightly off topic but: how does one buy a bike off of a returning traveler [ saving 2 shipping's]?
NA change of ownership usually has hurdles [ safeties inspections, signature there, and TAXES]. The plate usually belongs to the old owner?

Can one get a green card, or insurance?

Separately:
Can one bring a bike to Europe and then register it in Ireland?

Thanks

I'm not familiar with the rules governing registration of vehicles in Ireland, so please take my comment below as just 'food for thought'.

I suspect that the biggest problem one would face when bringing a vehicle sold outside of Europe to Europe and trying to register it there would be proving that the vehicle is compliant with European emissions and safety regulations. Emission regulations (and hence certification of the vehicle that it complies with emissions regulations, as evidenced by a sticker on the frame that is put there by the manufacturer) are different between Europe and (for example) North America. Although the differences may be quite small, what is acceptable in one jurisdiction is not acceptable in the other.

There are also other smaller regulatory issues to contend with. For example, the headlight beam pattern, whether it is a headlight designed for left hand drive (North America) vs. right hand drive (UK), the colours of turn signal lenses (red is acceptable in North America, but not in Europe), and even whether or not the turn signals remain illuminated as running lights (marker lights) when not in use (acceptable in North America, not acceptable in Europe).

All in all, I think your effort would be frustrated by inability to have the North American vehicle pass a safety and conformance inspection in Europe.

Michael

In Estonia this can be done online, as long as both parties have Estonian e-resident cards (50 euros and a visit to an embassy or a police station inside Estonia) or national ID cards. Plate stays with the vehicle.

I sent u a PM mate .would love to hear more!