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Hi all,
I just posted a message on another Page asking about this issue.
Can I fly in with my bike, stay a few weeks, leave my bike for a little less than a year and come back and ride out of the country without issue? You mentioned 6 months that the bike can stay. Would it be possible to extend this from a consulate here in Canada?
I hope you are enjoying Cartegena. If you have not ventured out and would like a smaller town, Tanganga to the north is really nice as well. A day's ride but leave before the wind picks up. I'm sure you've discovered this already ! jaja
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Hi all,
I just posted a message on another Page asking about this issue.
Can I fly in with my bike, stay a few weeks, leave my bike for a little less than a year and come back and ride out of the country without issue? You mentioned 6 months that the bike can stay. Would it be possible to extend this from a consulate here in Canada?
I hope you are enjoying Cartegena. If you have not ventured out and would like a smaller town, Tanganga to the north is really nice as well. A day's ride but leave before the wind picks up. I'm sure you've discovered this already ! jaja
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Well 6 month is the maximum per calender year. Normally you only get 2 month on the border and then you can extend one month at a time up to a total of 6. This is done at the DIAN and can only be done in person when you already have the VISA extention for yourself in your passport. They officially do not allow you to leave the country without your bike. So no matter what its illegal, but can of cause be done. Several people overstay and leave the country without problems. Your problems are if you get stopped on the way to the border on an expired import permit, then the police can conficate your bike on the spot.
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hmmm, this is not the news that I was wishing for. There is many police stops (and Military) - thank you - and not being able to fly home without the bike is another limitation. Mike, do you know if all the other countries in SA are similar?

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hmmm, this is not the news that I was wishing for. There is many police stops (and Military) - thank you - and not being able to fly home without the bike is another limitation. Mike, do you know if all the other countries in SA are similar?

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Well not legally!, but in Colombia they do not stamp anything about the bike in your passport like they do in several other latin american countries, so in reality your free to come and go as you please, as long as you bring out the bike before the permit expires or come back to extend the permit in time.

When that's said, (and I'm not recommending traveling with fake papers but merely passing on information), many people do (change dates on permits, fake titles, un-registered bikes, different owners and so on) and even last week I went with a traveler to the customs here to get an extension of an expired import permit and the only solution the boss of customs offered was that we should fake the papers/change the dates. He even offered to do it, just so there would be no problems if the bike got stopped by the police. This way the bike could be ridden to the border and checked into Ecuador no problems.

So like the customs officer explained: be happy we're not in a country like in Europe where there's only one way of doing things, here the road to fix a problem have several routes ;-)
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