Geoff,
If your bike is going to be in New Zealand unused for a year it is possible to place the bike in a rental fleet for the summer and earn a bit of money.
This may not appeal to you at all, and of course there are limited risks, although the bike would be fully insured of course.
Just a thought. Te Wai Tours in New Zealand, in which I have an interest, has been running since 1987, and has over 50 bikes in the fleet and does this quite a bit. We run the Beach Motorcycle Adventures' tours of New Zealand for Beachs of New York. And German tours for the German ADAC.
The bulk of the fleet is BMWs 850Rs and F650s, but we have small numbers of many different bikes from small trailies to Harleys.
You could specify your bike to be used on tours only.
As mentioned by Grant, New Zealand does not care about imports much as long as you pay the 12.5% GST.
If this idea interests you at all, let me know some possible dates and I will check with the guys in Christchurch.
cheers
Peter
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