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E Bay Bike
I live in Denmark although I am English.
I want to buy a motorbike in the UK on E Bay. The bike will be collected by a friend and taken to his garage.
I would like to collect the bike in the summer and bring the bike to denmark on the Ferry.
The bike will not be registered to me at the time.
How can I get Insurance for a week to get the bike back to Denmark?
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Hi Steve,
I don't think you can, at all easily anyway. It has to have a registered address in the UK to get insurance cover - there are loads of threads on here about the whole business of insurance/MOT/RFL (road fund licence) and how it all relates to Staturory Off Road Notification (sorn) and UK law.
Do a search for any of those terms if you are not sure.
IMO, your best bet is to get it to a ferry port in a van and then ride it aboard the boat on the ferry companys' private land.
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Officially NO but....
Steve
Get the bike, get on it and ride it home. If anyone stops you just explain that you are taking the bike to get registered in Denmark and you are not a proper dealer so have no trade plates. Then STOP being able to speak english, within ten minutes they will have given up as long as you weren't driving dangerously.
When it comes to big overland trips cops, like all people are easily impressed. I have been stopped well over a hundred times and I had the correct documentation maybe once and I have still been bought vodka more times (3) than charged (1)
We are all human, and being a good person will get you through a lot of red-tape that would stop you in your tracks if you were an arse-hole - so don't be an arse-hole!!
Take it easy, ride fast, ride safe and ride loose!!!!
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Originally Posted by henryuk
Steve
Get the bike, get on it and ride it home. If anyone stops you just explain that you are taking the bike to get registered in Denmark and you are not a proper dealer so have no trade plates. Then STOP being able to speak english, within ten minutes they will have given up as long as you weren't driving dangerously.
When it comes to big overland trips cops, like all people are easily impressed. I have been stopped well over a hundred times and I had the correct documentation maybe once and I have still been bought vodka more times (3) than charged (1)
We are all human, and being a good person will get you through a lot of red-tape that would stop you in your tracks if you were an arse-hole - so don't be an arse-hole!!
Take it easy, ride fast, ride safe and ride loose!!!!
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You have put yourself in the firing line with this reply !!
but I agree with you 100%
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The firing line is the most exciting place going!
What is the point in a community forum for exchanging opinions, thoughts and practical advice if we are all playing buy the book word-for-word...... "I am afraid that having risk-assessed the activity and concluded that the likelyhood of an 'incident' is 4/5 and the potential severity of an 'incident' is 5, giving a total combined risk of 80%, which is far beyond the prescribed limit, overland travel by motorcycle is to be discontinued!"
Same maths most of the insurance companies use. Which is a shame. Sure you have lots of serious stuff to contend with but suck it up, deal with it and if it goes wrong it goes wrong.
That said I feel that given the litigous times we live in I should protect myself should I end up in 'the line of fire':- all opinions expressed by that of Henryuk are that of an inexperienced and in this case drunken young man, and should not be followed by anyone, in anyy instance.
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p.s.
having received legal advice I would like to add that neither Henryuk or the individual whose registration on this site holds that name have ever or would ever advise contravening any law or by-law in any country for any purpose in perpetuity and any previous statement by the aforementioned was a literary work of fiction. Same as the classic children's tale about my spare 'MOT time' exhaust, ha ha!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by henryuk
Steve
Get the bike, get on it and ride it home. If anyone stops you just explain that you are taking the bike to get registered in Denmark and you are not a proper dealer so have no trade plates. Then STOP being able to speak english, within ten minutes they will have given up as long as you weren't driving dangerously.
When it comes to big overland trips cops, like all people are easily impressed. I have been stopped well over a hundred times and I had the correct documentation maybe once and I have still been bought vodka more times (3) than charged (1)
We are all human, and being a good person will get you through a lot of red-tape that would stop you in your tracks if you were an arse-hole - so don't be an arse-hole!!
Take it easy, ride fast, ride safe and ride loose!!!!
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Totally agree,
+1
As long as you are riding normally, and not like a hooligan, then don't worry.
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