How to torch a bike?

[Itchy]

No I'm serious,

It can't be as simple as stick a rag in the petrol tank and light it right? since I want to destroy any of the indentifying features on the bike that can trace it back to me....

I'm considering the nuclear option ie take the Africa twin out on my big trip and torching it at the end of my trip wherever it ends up.

I figure its going to cost me close to £900 to ship it home, at which it is worthless anyway since nobody wants to buy it in its current state and nobody will want to buy it with an extra 30,000 miles on the clock.


Any thoughts?

Ta
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[MinhDinh]

why not offer it to someone there?
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Rag in the petrol tank should work.

Light the rag, the flame will travel down the rag and into the petrol tank. Then it will explode into a million pieces.

Or find a bowl and fill that with a bit fuel and place it under the bike and light. May be worth dousing the tyres with some fuel and lighting too.
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[MarJay]

Wouldn't it be easier to just give it to someone at the other end?
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[MaybeGuy]

try and drive it home through the sea.
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[MinhDinh]

[Cigaro]

+1, just give it to someone. I'm sure they'll be able to make use of it!

[K0rnIsAFAGGOT]

Give it to a chav.

[-Ali-]

surely on your visa for that contry it's gonna show you've inmported a vehicle, otherwise surely they'd think you sold it and charge you for import taxes etc?

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[Pernig]

Note that some countries where you don't need a carnet to import a vehicle temporarily will stamp the vehicle's details into your passport so you can't leave without it. I would have thought leaving a country without the bike you rode into it on would catch the attention of border officials. So it might be physically easy to torch the bike, yet difficult to get yourself out of the country.

I suspect there may be people wanting to buy your bike, even at the end of its trip. Have you tried putting it up on the HUBB? I'm sure someone in some far-off country where these kind of bikes aren't available would clamour for one.

As said, you could give it away too, perhaps this would avoid paying taxes on importing to another country, I'm not sure though.
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[eddclarke]

Or sell it to me now
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[ajb]

completely dissamble it and keep any bits that you think are identifyable (frame number etc).
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[ThoughtContro...]

Angle grinder to the frame around the VIN no, engine block no etc.

You wanna go overboard? Thermite.

[Robby]

I thought africa twins were quite significantly overvalued back here, making it worth hanging on to.

Where are you riding it to? I'd still go with giving it away. I'd have it, if it was free, and you may be riding somewhere even more deprived than Kent.

[Jamrock]

I'd happily pay the £900 to you if you gave me the bike when you got back.

[Wozza]

Don't torch it; you'll damage the environment.

[chillpill]

yeah you could be nice and give it someone

but blowing it up would be so much more fun

[MarJay]

Bring it back and sell it to someone who has a 400 BROS so they can build a 750 BROS.
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[SoND]

An engine full of ANNM detonated at sea or stand with a large oxy/acetylene torch and melt it into a giant puddle.
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[Charlie]

I think I'd have the Africa but I don't have the money or the need for one yet, by the time you get back from your round the world I will be probably looking at getting one for touring (maybe round the world).
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[D O G]

Deliberately destroying a perfectly servicable bike is entirely wrong IMO.

Why don't you just modify your trip to mean that you return to the UK?

Even if you are coming back from the Far East/Africa then I would have thought that would only take a maximum of two weeks - hardly a massive effort when you have been doing it for a few months.

I don't recall you talking about doing the Americas in your trip, which would be the only place would actually incur shipping costs over and above just riding the thing.