Problems if: UK license, bike registered elsewhere?
Dear all,
I've searched for answers to this question in this forum and elsewhere, but without being able to get a complete answer to the question, so here goes (feel free to point me elsewhere if it's been answered before):
I have a full UK license (and am a UK citizen) but would like to fly to South America (preferably Colombia initially), purchase a bike there and then go on a trip around SA.
I don't want to focus on other problems (such as the carnet de passage, which I don't plan to get) in this particular thread, I just want to get my head around whether it is theoretically possible to buy the bike there, register it there, and go travelling on it, insuring it either for all SA or as I go?
I was wondering whether there are any problems crossing borders etc, if my license is UK but the bike is registered in Colombia and perhaps even insured in a third country.
I guess also, my question is more broad than just SA - I would also quite like to do a similar trip around Africa (ignoring the carnet problem for now, I think I could mostly chance it, I have friends who've done similar..), again buying a local bike, so the question remains: Is there any issue, in a global sense, with having a UK license, a bike registered elsewhere and on-the-hoof insurance?
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