From: Mike on

"Mike" <kinsarvik(a)yahoo.co.uk> a �crit dans le message de news:
494feac1$0$9423$ba4acef3(a)news.orange.fr...
>
> "72degrees" <peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> a �crit dans le message de news:
> 7f9e21ab-84be-4425-acf3-4d65a151df85(a)o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
> On 22 Dec, 10:47, "Mike Ricketts" <kinsar...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Then on Sunday afternoon a mate in Bolton phoned me to say do nothing
>> just
>> yet as that, given the credit crunch, if I hang on until Easter, a wad of
>> notes might get me an unbelievable bargain. He had just been out
>> negotiating with a couple of dealers and one of them was so desperate for
>> a
>
> Hmm. given the cost of used bikes in France generally, it makes me
> wonder why UK registered bikes aren't being taken over there in droves
> by dealers. Presumably a bike you purchased for your own use would be
> treated as a 'personal import' though.
>
> Is it subject to type approval and all that. Are you looking at post
> 2003 or newer (IIRC) bikes with appropriate certificates of confomity,
> or something older than ten years (which certainly makes things easier
> the other way).
>
> PF
Note to self, do not post reply until you have typed it!!

You do need conformity documents but I don't know if there are date related
limits. I did notice that the Triumph UK web-site had a scheme to assist
the process for taking a bike to France, via their French Importers.

Mike


From: The Older Gentleman on
Mike <kinsarvik(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Presumably a bike you purchased for your own use would be
> treated as a 'personal import' though.
>
> Is it subject to type approval and all that.

You have *no idea*....

As has been said here, dog did it with his missus's Baby Blade, and the
hassle was amazing.


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From: 72degrees on
On 22 Dec, 20:02, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman)
wrote:
> Mike <kinsar...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >  Presumably a bike you purchased for your own use would be
> > treated as a 'personal import' though.
>
> > Is it subject to type approval and all that.
>
> You have *no idea*....
>

I have the 'other way';.


> As has been said here, dog did it with his missus's Baby Blade, and the
> hassle was amazing.
>

Having simply registered a SO bike already bearing a French number
plate I can imagine it!Q

PF
From: Ace on
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:02:57 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk
(The Older Gentleman) wrote:

>Mike <kinsarvik(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Presumably a bike you purchased for your own use would be
>> treated as a 'personal import' though.
>>
>> Is it subject to type approval and all that.
>
>You have *no idea*....
>
>As has been said here, dog did it with his missus's Baby Blade, and the
>hassle was amazing.

But only cos it was never homlogated in France.

Of course, I never re-registered our vehicles in France, leaving some
(the 400/4) on UK plates and the others, that got used regularly on
both sides of the border, on Swiss ones.

But I've always had the impression that it'd be no more difficult in
France than it was in CH, and that was really no big deal at all.

From: The Older Gentleman on
Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> wrote:

> >As has been said here, dog did it with his missus's Baby Blade, and the
> >hassle was amazing.
>
> But only cos it was never homlogated in France.

True. But I think you still have to make a UK model of a bike sold in
France conform to "French rules." Which are not the same as "EU rules".


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