Best way to get a bike here from Canada?

Any tips or suggestions? What would be the best way to go about this?

 

Where is here? More details and all that.

 

I've done it a couple ways.

1) Drove across the border with a race bike in the back of the pickup. No questions asked.

2) Seller dismembered race bike and sent it to me in 2 crates as "parts".

 

Go north.

 

street legal??? if so you need to correctly import to register here.

If not just haul it back.

 

Also. Where in Canada?

 

Unless its for commercial purposes, may have trouble crossing the border.

 

And what didja get The Shark???

 

Well you aren't driving across to pick it up. So you are going to have to find a commercial shipper.

 

Try this
http://forums.13x.com/index.php?threads/importing-from-canada.367756/#post-5753009

 

Alberta Calgary to Ohio.


Also its a race only bike.

 

you will need a transport broker, with current border closures. Ski

 

Any recommendations?

 

In my recent experience, import brokers haven't a clue how to import a race bike. Read the stuff in the link I posted above and do it yourself. I did.

 

Since it is a race bike, this method is the easiest:

1. Find a Canadian racer that is racing in the US soon, hopefully at a track near you.

2. Have that racer receive the bike for you.

3. When said racer crosses the border, he/she just says "it's a race bike." Generally, no questions asked.

4. Meet racer at race track to complete delivery. Pay racer tons of cash for making it work.


The last time I brought in a bike from Canada I was very lucky. It was an RZ500 unfinished project. I saw it in person during a business trip to Toronto, and the seller was a cool guy. Told him it was sold if I can figure out a way to get it to my place.

A few weeks later, I meet a Canadian Endurance team during the WERA National at TGPR. He lives near the seller, and agrees to pick up the bike for me. About a month later, he brings it to the next round at Atlanta Motor Speedway, about a 90 minute drive from my house. I paid him US$200 cash. He was very happy. If I had to pay him US$500 I'd still would have been happy.

This was in 1998. Happily, I still have the bike. Sadly, still haven't touched it. Yet.

 

That's great except no one is crossing the border till spring at the earliest.

 

Got a friend with a boat? How thick is the ice?

 

Trebuchet

 

Who needs a boat this time of year? Spikes in the rear tyre!

 

It’s in Alberta, not Quebec.

It’s a catapult.