Got a VFR but don't know if its worth bringing to NZ

[ANDIES]

Just joined up so this is 1st posting.
Looks a pretty good site

Coming to Auckland in September to make the roads better in NZ! but can't determine wether its worth bringing my bikes:- a VFR 750 F 1995, a trialer montessa cota 350 and a good old Suzuki GS550e?

Anybody in NZ brought over a bike from the UK who wishes to communicate ?
What is a 1995 VFR worth in NZ its done 62000miles say 100,000km. Well serviced and in reasonable nick?

cheers

Andy

[XTC]

Don't know anything about bringing bikes in but think it would be worth about $5000 NZD with that mileage. (if it's still pretty)

[GSVR]

Check on here to see what bikes are going for over here. Look for the ones that reach their reserve as some people dream abit about what their bikes are worth.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Sports-tourer/mcat-0001-0026-1255-2509-.htm

I'm not up on VFR's but I do know theres some models that have issues and some that are very sought after. You will know what group yours comes under.

Bike prices in NZ have come down alot recently don't know if this is a world wide trend or not.

[Ogri]

Welcome - from my own experience I would say bring em - I wish I had shipped my bikes out when I moved here in 2002. That's my only regret about coming out here! Took me a year and a half to get a bike again. No offence to the Kiwis but the secondhand market here was a bit disappointing - you don't get much for your hard earned dollar! I ended up buying new.

No better roads than in NZ - wide, open, no traffic and very little threat of being pulled for speeding (compared to the UK - ok I came from Scotland!) I love it here.

[ANDIES]

I thought the police had cameras every where. We took a motorhome in NZ in March/april this year for a month and got nicked! doing 64k in a 50 k zone on a Sunday! in the coromandel penisula! The cops have even found me in the UK and have even written to me wanting $NZ 80!

[James Deuce]

I thought the police had cameras every where. We took a motorhome in NZ in March/april this year for a month and got nicked! doing 64k in a 50 k zone on a Sunday! in the coromandel penisula! The cops have even found me in the UK and have even written to me wanting $NZ 80!

The Police don't run speed cameras.

Plus, and don't take this the wrong way, irrespective of the conditions, the levels of traffic, and the apparent risk you were 14km/hr over the speed limit in an area with that had the lowest fixed speed that is set in NZ. It's usually that way for a reason, though admittedly that reason can be somewhat impenetrable sometimes.

By coming over to make the roads "better" you better not be coming over here to straighten roads. We have hoods, and pitchforks, and flaming torchs for roading engineers that talk like that.

[ANDIES]

Good reply jim.

I appreciate what you say but I was surprised to get caught . :slap:

You say they do not 'run' speed cameras . What do you mean there aren't any or they just use car cameras? I didn't see many fixed cameras except on auckland bridge. or perhaps i'm just blind. :rolleyes:

[Wolf]

Welcome Andies. Nice to see someone from Kernow. Our ancestors left there in 1840, we still have family there (only two brothers out of a family of about eight actually came out here)

Bring your bikes over and no, don't straighten the roads - feel free to do something about the craters in our so-called State Highway 1, though...

[Zed]

Just joined up so this is 1st posting.
Looks a pretty good siteWelcome along ANDIES! How did you find Kiwibiker?


Coming to Auckland in September to make the roads better in NZ! "Better" by your presence I trust? Typical Pom! :msn-wink: jk


but can't determine wether its worth bringing my bikes:- a VFR 750 F 1995, a trialer montessa cota 350 and a good old Suzuki GS550e? To you these bikes are probably priceless, but if you do the exercise and work out the freighting, customs, registering, & relevant documentation you may find it's too expensive? Keep us posted on your decision.

Hope your 'relocation' goes smootly and without complication! :niceone:


Zed

[ANDIES]

Found it through google trying to find out bike prices in NZ

No I don't want to straighten any roads - just mendim and possibly make some more

The bikes aren't priceless to me really. Trouble is like you say getting them through customs and the expense of fumagating and cleaning and shipping probably outways what there worth, I'm beginning to think flog them in the UK and buy something new in NZ for daily riding and a cheap crosser for the outback.

On a differnet note can you just grab a crosser/trials and wander off in to the outback out there or is there a lot of oposition from the greenies?
Are ther any enduro/trials stuff out there like our ' london to lands end trials' i.e timed trials bit of road work and the odd section ( hill climb etc)?

[Wolf]

"Better" by your presence I trust? Typical Pom! :msn-wink: jk
Celt, not pom - from Kernow, not England (awaiting bite from Oscar...)

(OK, I'm making assumptions based on his current address and for all I know his family moved to Cornwall from Essex in 1960, descended from Coeur de Lion's family and even more of a raving Imperialist than LiasTZ, but if he was living in Cornwall and wants to be a Kiwi, there's something going for him...)

[Coyote]

Bring the Montesa along. New Zealand is great trials country :niceone:

[Wolf]

...buy something new in NZ for daily riding and a cheap crosser for the outback.

On a differnet note can you just grab a crosser/trials and wander off in to the outback...
What country were you heading for again? ;)

We do have some great adventure rides and off-road areas here in NZ - Oscar is quite involved in that scene and I've seen some great pics of adventure rides he's been involved with (unfortunately, he'll call you an "Englishman")

It will depend on where you're settling yourself and how far you're prepared to travel as to what is available (not that NZ is too big to travel to where the action is)

[ANDIES]

Born and bred in Cornwall and family goes back to when wolf's ancestors left.

I'm really a mining engineer even spent a time down the tin mines before they all closed up so went tunnelling instead and ended up in construction - life history - so your right i'm a celt and one in mining. Probably why wolf's ancestors left same problem tin price crashed! :grouphug:

[Ixion]

.. even more of a raving Imperialist than LiasTZ,..

'ere, I have a copyright on any raving Imperialism that's going .Any infringments and I'll send a gunboat. :D . Actually, if Mr ANDIES were descended from Coeur de Lion he wouldn't be English, he'd be one of they Norman bastidges.

Dydh da. Da yw genev metya genes.

Welcome Mr ANDIES

Suggest you PM Motu re trials , he's quite into them .

[Wolf]

Born and bred in Cornwall and family goes back to when wolf's ancestors left.

I'm really a mining engineer even spent a time down the tin mines before they all closed up so went tunnelling instead and ended up in construction - life history - so your right i'm a celt and one in mining. Probably why wolf's ancestors left same problem tin price crashed! :grouphug:
Ah, "Ngati Keltoi". Dumnonii forever. And a miner to boot. My ancestors ran the smithy in Penpillick - I had to get the reaaaaallllly large-scale maps at the University to find it. Far enough inland that our family couldn't participate in that great Kermow tradition... shifting the lamps to lure ships onto the rocks.

My ancestor Josias died 6 months after he and his family arrived in NZ - drowned off the coast of Petone helping people escape a stricken ship. Trouble is, you say a Cornishman was helping people in a shipwreck and all you get is disbelieving stares or "Yeah, sure, helped them have one, you mean."

[James Deuce]

Good reply jim.

I appreciate what you say but I was surprised to get caught . :slap:

You say they do not 'run' speed cameras . What do you mean there aren't any or they just use car cameras? I didn't see many fixed cameras except on auckland bridge. or perhaps i'm just b

olleyes:

The speed cameras are run by private contractors on behalf of the Police. The Police use Laser and Radar technology from Highway Patrol vehicles. We corporatise facism here :)

There have been cases of collection agents being despatched to the UK to retrieve outstanding fines, though I think that's stopped now.

Looking forward to yet another "Brit" (sorry - best single word to describe the mix of races that inhabit such a small place) moving here.

[Zed]

Found it through google trying to find out bike prices in NZShows internet marketing/advertising works!


No I don't want to straighten any roads - just mendim and possibly make some moreOops, totally misunderstood you there mate, I thought you were being humourous? :wacko:


buy something new in NZ for daily riding and a cheap crosser for the outback.There are plenty of good bikes down here to choose from (as you have probably found out over the Net), but nothing like going into the shops and taking them for a test ride, which you can do easily in NZ!

Which NZ city/town are you coming to btw?


On a differnet note can you just grab a crosser/trials and wander off in to the outback out there or is there a lot of oposition from the greenies?
Are ther any enduro/trials stuff out there like our ' london to lands end trials' i.e timed trials bit of road work and the odd section ( hill climb etc)?I believe you can. The best possible way of finding out specific details is to start a new thread in the "Off Road" forums! Sounds like fun though, I must get out and do it sometime. I've ridden off-road bikes through forrests before but never on a decent tour down country!

[Wolf]

Actually, if Mr ANDIES were descended from Coeur de Lion he wouldn't be English, he'd be one of they Norman bastidges.
I know, I was going all out to be as unCeltic as possible - from a Saxon territory and a Norman to boot. (We get to boot Normans? Where do I sign up?)

I've got LiasTZ's address if you wanna send that gunboat - he wants to remove the Southern Cross and go back to the Union Flag owng to the sun not setting on the "British" Empire...

Hell, I'll supply the shells - 40mm Bofors?

[Ixion]

I know, I was going all out to be as unCeltic as possible - from a Saxon territory and a Norman to boot. (We get to boot Normans? Where do I sign up?)

I've got LiasTZ's address if you wanna send that gunboat - he wants to remove the Southern Cross and go back to the Union Flag owng to the sun not setting on the "British" Empire...

Hell, I'll supply the shells - 40mm Bofors?

I'll sign up for that . And you can keep your dem'n Continental guns. Armstrongs will do for me.

[RiderInBlack]

I'm not up on VFR's but I do know theres some models that have issues and some that are very sought after. It's hard to get a good VFR750 between 90 and 95 in NZ. They hold their price well but are not common here (so replacement fairrings are hard to come by). I could not find one to replace the 1990 VFR750 I trash last year (ended up with the CBR I've got now as they are must more common here).