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So, a buddy of mine has his old bike sitting in customs with no way to get it home. The only thing hes got are the keys, no paperwork of any kind.
Short history of the bike:
1997 Suzuki TL1000S he purchased new from a UK dealer but registered it to someone other than himself for personal reasons. Couple of months later my buddy took the bike to Denmark and never got it registered. Few years later he went to Italy and again neglected to register the bike. In 2004 he moved to the USA (Minnesota specifically) leaving the bike in Italy due to "homoligation issues" making importing it difficult.
Enter 2013, a friend in Italy decided to finally put the bike in a crate and ship it to Minnesota for him anyway, but due to previously mentioned issues, my buddy isnt even bothering.
I imagine this is going to be a total nightmare to figure out, but I wanted to inqire if anyone else here has had experience importing an untitled/unregistered motorcycle (specifically a TL) from Europe at some point and what all is required to get the bike through customs. My buddy is just gonna let it go to auction or the crusher and forget about it, but he said if I want to figure out how to get it through I can have it. Even if it ends up costing a few hundred bucks to get it out itll be well worth it. But if its gonna cost more to get it homoligated than the bike cost new, im afraid its going to get crushed. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.
Short history of the bike:
1997 Suzuki TL1000S he purchased new from a UK dealer but registered it to someone other than himself for personal reasons. Couple of months later my buddy took the bike to Denmark and never got it registered. Few years later he went to Italy and again neglected to register the bike. In 2004 he moved to the USA (Minnesota specifically) leaving the bike in Italy due to "homoligation issues" making importing it difficult.
Enter 2013, a friend in Italy decided to finally put the bike in a crate and ship it to Minnesota for him anyway, but due to previously mentioned issues, my buddy isnt even bothering.
I imagine this is going to be a total nightmare to figure out, but I wanted to inqire if anyone else here has had experience importing an untitled/unregistered motorcycle (specifically a TL) from Europe at some point and what all is required to get the bike through customs. My buddy is just gonna let it go to auction or the crusher and forget about it, but he said if I want to figure out how to get it through I can have it. Even if it ends up costing a few hundred bucks to get it out itll be well worth it. But if its gonna cost more to get it homoligated than the bike cost new, im afraid its going to get crushed. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.
