Why so many UK imports on tradme?

[scracha]

AND YOU OWN A TDM (TIDIUM) GET WITH THE PICTURE , GET A NEW BIKE

Got to say, the tedium is the best bike I've owned. Don't think I'd swap it with any other bike...maybe barring a well sorted BMW GS, the new KTM or a 900 TDM!

Definately wouldn't go back to sportsbikes for road use (track days are a different matter). Mind you, the fact that a ZX-10's seat barely reaches my mid thigh has a strong bearing on this. Changing tyres every 3000 miles, back ache, massive depreciation, bouncing out of seat on potholes, high insurance, high servicing costs, worrying about bike theft, 35mpg and never being able to use the top 2 gears are all distant memories.

Anyway, every fule know Suzuki's fall apart (all of mine have).

re: compulsory insurance - One thing it stops is silly yoofs going out and buying Scoobies, Evo's and massive trucks (unless their parents are extremely wealthy and extrememly stupid).

[Mooch]

Go to autotrader.co.uk and do a search on you fav bike. Times the price by 2.57 and that give you the rough NZ price. Eg Ducati 2003/ 4 Ducati 999R , 13,000 pounds = 33,000 NZ Dollars and shipping and gst / stick a number of bikes in a container to keep costs down and you'll get the picture .... Try to find one second hand in NZ for less than 45 - 50 k. Similar for Porsche and Ferrari , most exotics are cheaper here due to numbers and uppies trading on the next squid fashion....

[scracha]

Go to autotrader.co.uk and do a search on you fav bike. Times the price by 2.57 and that give you the rough NZ price. Eg Ducati 2003/ 4 Ducati 999R , 13,000 pounds = 33,000 NZ Dollars and shipping and gst / stick a number of bikes in a container to keep costs down and you'll get the picture .... Try to find one second hand in NZ for less than 45 - 50 k. Similar for Porsche and Ferrari , most exotics are cheaper here due to numbers and uppies trading on the next squid fashion....

You think? Maybe for the newer stuff. Older kit, I don't think so. Maybe take the UK price and multiply it by around 4. Which is a pity as you only get about 2.6 Kiwi for the pound meaning kiwi bikers are getting ripped off by around 50%. The price of some of these $hite old 400's and early 90's stuff just astonishes me.

Infact, even some newer stuff is ridiculous. TDM 900 is a sniff under £5500 (before dealer discounts). NZ price is over 17,000. I'm looking forward to riding in NZ, but not looking forward to paying over the odds for a bike.

On a different note. Do kiwi bikes get taxed at different rates depending on engine size?

[Mooch]

No tax based on Engine size that I know off , It's probably down to economies of scale and shipping costs in smaller numbers. (and with Ducati's the Aussie exclusive importers extra margin) Possible also because of lesser number of bike shops trying to make a living out of selling motorcycles exclusively so need to charge slighty more.
R1's and GSXR1000 are however priced closer to UK markets.

[Timetogo]

the insurance comment was interesting. I bought my bike back from the UK at the end of last year and bike insurance cost a LOT more here than it did in the UK. One of the reasons for bringing it back was it was/is worth more here to. They changed the import laws at the start of this year as well, if you're a returning immigrant you no longer have to pay GST on vehicles either if you've owned it for a while, I missed out on that by 6 weeks

[Mooch]

Not in the UK long enough to make a real difference to GST on a bike. 999R is tempting at Uk prices though , Stange on insurance , maybe NZ has got silly on large capacity insurance costs . Thought it was dearer here , maybe not on reflection.Maybe you should try JB insurance in Auckland. Premiums can be half that of mainstream companies.

[scracha]

No tax based on Engine size that I know off , It's probably down to economies of scale and shipping costs in smaller numbers. (and with R1's and GSXR1000 are however priced closer to UK markets.

Never really looked at R1's and suchlike. When I've got money for 2 bikes then I'd consider something superdoopersporty again. ZX10, R1, Blade & Gixers are all around 8K GBP new which is rougly 20K NZ at the mo.

Take what you're saying about economies of scale. There's a lot less choice of bikes in NZ too from what I've seen. The dealers don't seem to give much discounts either (in the UK you're normally talking a grand or two (GBP) off the list price for the bigger bikes).

No tax on engine size...now that's just fuckin stupid. You'd think the government would maybe try and encourage small bikes on the roads (perhaps slightly disencouraging larger ones)..

Thank gawd the petrol prices and fantastic roads make up the difference

[Lou Girardin]

Anyway, every fule know Suzuki's fall apart (all of mine have).

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With you till this rubbish. Heard about dying TDM 850 g/boxes.