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International shipping

  • 04-10-2010 11:11am
    #1
    DonkeyRhubarb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭


    I'm living in South Korea now and have my bike just sitting at home in Ireland doing nothing. Couldn't sell it, so it's a very expensive ornament now.

    Does anyone have any experience with shipping a bike internationally from Ireland? I'm limited to the research I can do, as I can't call different agencies to get prices and so forth, or even find out if it is possible.

    Doesn't look like I'm going to be leaving here for the foreseeable future, so I'd like to have my bike with me.

    Thanks in advance for any help at all.


Comments

  • #2
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Haven't a clue :p


  • #3
    giant_midget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭giant_midget


    DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »
    I'm living in South Korea now and have my bike just sitting at home in Ireland doing nothing. Couldn't sell it, so it's a very expensive ornament now.

    Does anyone have any experience with shipping a bike internationally from Ireland? I'm limited to the research I can do, as I can't call different agencies to get prices and so forth, or even find out if it is possible.

    Doesn't look like I'm going to be leaving here for the foreseeable future, so I'd like to have my bike with me.

    Thanks in advance for any help at all.

    Marin Aer Ireland, They will be able to help you out no bother.

    Ph: 01 8444766


  • #4
    MikeC101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭MikeC101


    Watch out for possibly big fees / tax / whatever on import. South Korea can be pretty bad on that for vehicles made outside the country.

    Would you consider buying a second hand Hyosung / Daelim over there? Can be head for probably less than the cost of shipping your bike, plus servicing and maintaining them costs next to nothing in Korea. I owned two different Hyosungs when I lived there - one was a 1995 bike, one was 2003. Zero problems with either of them.


  • #5
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    If you take the notional value of your bike here, subtract shipping and customs in Korea from it, (which will be a lot, btw.........), then that's what you should sell your bike from here, to not lose any more money.

    That sum should then, I'd wager, but a nicy Hyosung GT, over there. I saw a lovely new 10 G xxxx reg one the other day, and, I have to say, I was very impressed with it.

    What is your bike here, btw. ?

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #6
    DonkeyRhubarb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭DonkeyRhubarb


    It's an 09 Fazer 600. Just sitting there. Unloved. Cost me nearly 10k in total :( I could get a bike here no bother, but I love my bike and was willing to go to a little expense to have a one of a kind here as there are none. I've been offered 4k for my bike, but to lose nearly 6k in a year is just not going to happen. Ever.


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  • #7
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭Wossack


    any running issues with big bikes over there?


  • #8
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »
    It's an 09 Fazer 600. Just sitting there. Unloved. Cost me nearly 10k in total :( I could get a bike here no bother, but I love my bike and was willing to go to a little expense to have a one of a kind here as there are none. I've been offered 4k for my bike, but to lose nearly 6k in a year is just not going to happen. Ever.

    I think I remember that bike, black and semi naked? I'm looking to rent something for a few months....Also 10k seems an awful lot for a Fazer...


  • #9
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »
    It's an 09 Fazer 600. Just sitting there. Unloved. Cost me nearly 10k in total :( I could get a bike here no bother, but I love my bike and was willing to go to a little expense to have a one of a kind here as there are none. I've been offered 4k for my bike, but to lose nearly 6k in a year is just not going to happen. Ever.

    Not six grand. More around four. Its why you only buy new if you plan to keep for a good few years.


  • #10
    DonkeyRhubarb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭DonkeyRhubarb


    Fazer with front fairing. I also got panniers and an after market restriction.

    This is her:

    http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/39/58901439.html


  • #11
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »
    Fazer with front fairing. I also got panniers and an after market restriction.

    This is her:

    http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/39/58901439.html


    Wow, nice bike: I didn't think it was something that new/shiney/expensive. That puts a different light on it, tbh.

    Start with Custom's enquiry, and whether you have to re-reg it, even temporarily, in S.K., first. If that's reasonable, then shipping a bike of that value could well make sense.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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