Glen, I wonder what's the legal procedure to sell a motorcycle down there. Usually it requires to pay several taxes due to nationalization and things like that. That could potentially decrease your profit. One note on buying things there: you probably know this by now, but if you are buying something with Argentinian currency, you shouldn't just go with the official exchange rate, but rather with the "local" one which will give you a much better deal.
Javier. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:24 AM, EGrider <[email protected]> wrote: > Hope everyone on this list enjoyed the holidays. > > I mentioned in the gas leak thread that went seriously off topic that I > was going down to Patagonia for Christmas, and I looked around for > interesting motorcycles while I was down there. The most interesting thing > I found was this XRE300-Rally, which was parked at the Chile-Argentina > border crossing. > > Almost all of the motorcycles I saw outside the cities were BMWs or KTMs, > many with EU tags, ridden by foreign tourists. They all had knobby tires > and looked pretty dirty, so I guess they took them off the roads on > purpose. But that I mean I rented a car for 3 days and put about 500 miles > on it, and driving on gravel roads is a matter of choice, not necessity. I > mean, you can see the Rally was parked on gravel, but that's only because > the little strip of no man's land between the Chilean and Argentinian > checkpoints was not paved. The rest was as nice as any roads I find in > Georgia. > > I change my mind about not taking Old Yeller down there since the roads > are fine, although I'll admit that, if the people did not speak Spanish, I > would not feel like I was south of Texas when I'm in Chile. Bolivia's not > like that. I talked to one guy on a big, kitted-out Triumph who told me > that he had come from Santiago that day, over 700 miles away, and it was > only the afternoon. He told me that he did it by riding down the Pan > American Highway, a controlled access toll road, at 200 KPH all the way! I > certainly wouldn't do a vacation on a super slab like that, but it > indicates the condition of the highways. > > I found this official page on the bike: > http://motos.honda.com.ar/motos/XRE300-RALLY/ At the official exchange > rate of 850/USD1, these bikes cost $10,000 new, way more than any of us > would pay. Although I could take Old Yeller down there, she wouldn't be > easy to sell. I'm still looking into buying something here that's also > available at 2X the price there, taking it down there, and selling it at a > big profit to pay for most of the trip. Anybody else interested? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
