Lumpy wrote:Never ever get tired of seeing those lovely silver and blue lines. So...............how about some details. Is it from eBay, how many miles or k`s, whats involved in shipping them over, is is expensive and time consuming to have them shipped???? I`m almost as excited as I would imagine you are.......
Yes, it was in fact an eBay auction from a bloke in California.
The only issue with doing this is that it can turn out to be very tricky to get it into a crate then from the seller to the shippers location, once in the shippers hands you are golden (as long as its a good shipper)
Importing is not a problem, you need a permit to import which you get from the Aust Federal Govt transport department before it arrives in Australia, the rest we have our shipper/custom clearers handle. From experience you can do the custom clearence your self and save a little bit but its a hand full and takes a lot of time - one word of advice, leave it to the experts. If you can find a freight mob that also does the custom clearance for you that is even better.
Interestingly this one came over with 8 ltrs of US petrol and a sump full of oil I do not know how still in it!!
Expensive to import? Depends on how much GST you end up having to pay which is a factor of how much the bike cost you.
