For those curious about riding in Europe

[the Ferret]

Yea Topstroke, Edelweiss really has it figured out and you are treated like family. Besides the great hotels, and meals, like you said, delivering your luggage to your room before you arrive, impromptu pic nic lunches, and not worrying about getting lost, or the language or the money (except for paying for the trip lol), great reliable bikes, chase van. Were we well off, my wife and I would take a bunch of their tours.

[kmoney_imp]

One thing I wish that Euro bike makers did was have a European Delivery program like the Euro automakers do. I would love to be able to pick up a new Duc, Ape or Guzzi at the factory, take a factory tour, ride my new bike around Europe for a couple weeks and the drop it off at a port for pre-arranged shipping to send it to my local dealer. I'm kinda surprised at least Ducati doesn't have this, as from what I know (at least personally/anecdotally) about the people who buy them I could see this being a decent selling point.

[Elipten_imp]

I know BMW and others did this 30 years ago.


2014 CB1100 DLX
2013 CB1100 Std
1990 BMW K75 RT

[Paulb_imp]

I know a guy who flew to India and bought an Enfield from the factory and rode it home to the UK. Great trip but he had all sorts of problems bring the bike through customs and another set of problems when he tried to register it for use on UK roads. It's probably this registration problem which makes personal importation an impractical proposition. When we buy a new bike from our local dealer we tend to forget just how much administration has been carried out to get it there.

[Razor]

This is a great thread and got me thinking.
Always wanted to go to Europe.
Now, just need to save and convince the better half