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In 2015, Pterodactyl and I flew to the US and rented a couple of bikes to attend the first CB1100 Forum Rally in North Carolina. It was a fabulous experience. The bike rental was around AU$2,000 for a week, and it was well worth it.

Yesterday I discovered [url=http://getrouted.com.au/]GetRouted* which tells me I could ship my bike to the US for around AU$3,500 and be allowed to ride it for 6 months on my Australian registration. Ironically, though, only 3 months on my Australian licence. So, for more than 2 weeks US motorcycling, it would be a fantastic deal. The cost to take the bike to the UK and Europe is around the same and just under AU$2,000 to New Zealand.

I must say, it's very tempting.

I haven't explored it, but these guys may well be amendable to doing the whole business backwards so you could bring a bike to Australia for an extended trip and save a shed load on rental.

*I don't think this term has quite the same meaning in North America as in Australia.

I have a bike in western Canada which I would like shipped from Vancouver to Australia (Sydney? Perth?) for a couple of months worth of touring.

Check out the web site, Rotor. They ship to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane from Seattle depending on demand.

This is the deal for 2017; there's nothing yet posted for 2018. http://getrouted.com.au/documents/2017US...SA_001.pdf

Read every bloody word!!! LOL....

Interesting idea! Shipping the bike seems to be a cost effective alternative if you're going to stay for awhile.

Earlier this week, I was parked next to a Triumph Tiger in Utah and noticed that it had a very odd looking license plate. Closer inspection revealed that the Tiger was from Tahiti. I didn't meet the owner, but was pretty impressed at his determination to tour the States on his own bike.

Way back in 1968 I was between jobs and decided to go to Europe for a while. I was living in the Detroit area and there was a newspaper strike. No place to advertise my bike for sale there. So I visited friends in D.C. and advertised it there. I only got 2 inquiries and was wasting time so I called TWA and got a quote of $150 dollars to air freight it to Frankfort Germany. I got a crate from the local Honda dealer and crated my Kawasaki 650cc W1 and my friends and I hauled it to the terminal. Well, about 3 hours before I was due to board my passenger flight I get this call from the freight agent saying he quoted me the wrong tariff. The tariff he quoted me for for motorcycle parts and the one for a completed motorcycle was double!! I told him that he made the mistake, not me, and perhaps he could open the crate, remove the front wheel and seat that were already off the bike (so it would fit in the crate), put them in a separate box, and then ship 2 boxes of motorcycle parts. To my surprise he said he could do that! So, I flew over, got to Frankfort, went to get my bike and asked if I could leave the crate since I had no place to discard it. The freight agent looked at the paperwork and said "but this says motorcycle parts". "That's true" I said "but you give me a half hour with a wrench". He grinned and said "Sure, sure, leave the the crate"!
I spent 2 and a half months there and shipped the bike back to Detroit via Ocean freight.

Great story, Redbird. I wonder what your 1968 US$150 would be worth now?

Edit: Ah, well, [url=http://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=160&year=1968]ask Google. The answer is apparently $1,139.50. Still a good deal.

Yankee ingenuity!
Always wanted to ship my bike to Newfoundland or Nova Scotia, fly up and ride home.