For $2K I reckon you could fly to the States, strip the bike, box it up, arrange shipping and send it home in parts, and still have enough left for a couple evenings in the local gogo! _________________ Andy.
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I paid $500 for shipment by sea from Phoenix AZ to my house in Cambridge in 2006. For that price I had to crate it myself and deliver the crate to the shipping warehouse in Phoenix. I used a Ducati shipping container, which was strong enough to stack (mandatory), and free of charge. The steel frame of the crate is originally covered in cardboard which had been thrown away, so I covered it with pallet wrap instead - no problem. If your bike is in Arizona I can help with contacts.
You can try a company out of LA called ship overseas, I just used them for a bike from the states to Germany, about $1100....a bit much, but the prices have gone way up the last year. I used them before for a car and no issues, run by some British folks actually.
Good luck!
Oh, also that is a roll on, roll off deal, you do not have to do any crating!
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I just shipped an NSR from Japan to California and it cost around $ 1,500 dollars, took two weeks to show up and cost another 450 dollars in taxes and duties. Bikes are now expensive to ship...I heard you can ship bikes from Japan to North America for 800 dollars but I believe that to be a bunch of crap. I'd agree with Andy, fly out, pull the bike apart and bring it home and put it back in your living room...thats what I did with a few bikes....but then again that was years before 9/11 and tough laws and fuel and baggage service charges....it would probably end up costing the same to bring it home and more work I guess......pay for the shipping and save yourself a hassle. Good luck to you
I tried about 4 shipping agents, all but 1 failed to get me a price. The UK agent quoted a price of £600.
I've had a kind offer to break the bike up and ship it in parts......that way I'll avoid the 25% tax (8% import + 17.5% VAT) and it should be a little cheaper.
Be very careful bringing in a bike in bits if you want to register it later.
Without the correct import papers and taxes paid you cannot register the bike in the UK. I had this trouble with my LC many moons ago, and that was only from the channel isles. The good old tax man will always get his money.
If it's a keeper, which I understand it will be, just register it on a Q plate as countless numbers of CR/CRF's are! It doesn't make a huge difference to the cost of insurance like it used to either.
But yeah, I would expect you can import/declare just the chassis, and pay the duty on that. What's the difference between that and breaking down an imported bike and replacing all the parts with replacements sourced from elsewhere? There's no reason why the frame and swingarm can't be declared as £100~£200 value with a valid US registration for import purposes. In fact, I would think that £200 is a fair appraisal for one, and £50 tax on that fair too!
Failing that, sell one of your MC28's with the imported frame as a race bike, and use the UK registered frame for the build. _________________ Andy.
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