It seems that getting bikes cleared in Buenos Aires just got VERY much more expensive.
Javier was good enough to reply to my enquiry even though he was on vacation, but his charge is now US $250 per bike, each bike must have its own Airwaybill number (we ship two bikes in one crate), each crate should be under 350kg (ours is 490kg) and goverment taxes and fees can run to US $600 per bike. So, US $1700 to ride our own bikes in Argentina for a couple of weeks? I don't think so!
Contrast this with clearing the same bikes into South Africa less than a month ago: SAR2850 which is about US $235.
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