Why are the Polish buying all my bikes?

[AngelGrinder]

As the title....

My Silver '99 R6 just went to a new home.....and it's going to Poland.

Thats the 4th bike between me and my Dad that has gone to Poland this year,

My Dads SV650 went, then my crashed ZX6R went, then my Dad's X11.....now my R6...every single one of our bikes we have sold this year has gone on a truck back to Poland, same story everytime -

1 or 2 guys turn up in a van, look over it, check numbers etc, turn it on, turn it off, hand over cash and chuck it in the back of their van - which usually has bikes in it already.

I asked the guys who just came, and they said they had bought 5 bikes today, and 2 yesterday....

There must be alot of money in this for them to go through all the hassel.....but why?
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[TheDonUK]

My old Bandit went to Poland too...

[McJamweasel]

We've had a new Speed Triple and Daytona 675 go to Latvia and today a guy flew in from Norway for a VN2000. That might not of been so bad except that he had no idea how to get back again!
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[sickpup]

There are very few 2nd hand sports bikes in Poland so they come over here to buy them. Ten years ago it was common to ship a container of cheap ex-despatch bikes and 2nd hand parts, now they have money they go for sports bikes.

[Pernig]

[rotax81]

a lot of stolen bikes also end up in poland.
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[Ben.]

you only just bought that bike! why you selling?
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[plugger147]

It's not just Poland either, a guy I used to work with is doing similar trips to Slovakia.
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[c-m]

Sold my GPZ500 on ebay, the guy pretended to be from Birmingham. He turned up after driving for 20+ hours from Poland. Tired to haggle the price, paid in crisp £50 notes and off he went back to Poland after I filled in some forms. Nice guy too apart form trying to haggle.
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[thegubner]

We have had a few in at work buying 4 grand + passat's.

They say they are cheaper here than poland.

[AngelGrinder]

[meach]

But who's left in Poland to ride them............ i thought they are all over here???????????????????????????????????
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[NSR Mick]

[s44678]

I reckon they're buying them for the same reasons they buy the cars, as a nice little earner. The relative price of bikes over there is way higher than here.

There were these Polish guys who used to work for us who were pretty handy with the spanners. They would buy up old second hand or knackered cars at auction, do them up, then drive em over to Poland at the weekends and sell them for a nice profit. Then they would fly back to work for Monday. Genius!

A 2000 model sports bike is starting to get old here, but its still shit hot over there.

[Rawker]

some will probably get registered over in poland so that whilst they are over here, they can't get speeding tickets!