Travelling for an extended period

[c-m]

I am seriously considering a long trip. A very long trip. In fact i'm thinking of travelling to Mumbai to visit a friend then from there on to New Zealand to visit another.

Now I'd probably be looking at taking a year out and having some fun, but I just wondered what do people do about MOT and TAX when travelling for an extended period?

How much money do you reckon it takes to travel around the world 26,00 miles? About 10k?

[Clanger]

I flattened the tyres, SORNED, fitted the trickle charge to the battery, threw a blanket over her, locked the garage and off I went.

No problems.

Money wise, I took £7k and came back back with much change.
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[Pernig]

Law-wise, you have no obligation to keep your bike taxed and MOT'd whilst it is abroad. Like Clanger said, make sure you SORN it. If you don't they will probably try and slap you with an £80 fine.

I would really recommend the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook for this sort of thing. It tells you which countries you need visas and carnets to get into and how to go about it in much depth. Obviously some of this info may be out of date, but it is worth having all the same.
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[Biker101]

I'd just MOT and tax the bike just before i went so hopefully i would be back before they run out.

You'd have to find an insurance company that will let you go abroad for so long too.
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[Clanger]

Go Insure are perfect insurers for long trips abroad.
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[c-m]

I've never been out of Europe, so a long distance tour in 2011 is really appealing to me. My plan would be to sell up everything i own, which isn't much and just dissapear for a while.

I know Stinkwheel or Itchy one of those guys rode to East Asia - i'd be interested to know their mileage total costs.

I do read around a bit on the ADV forums, but like to promote more discussion on these fine boards

[Phoenix]

Nath and Itchy both recently did long trips out to Mongolia and China, I don't think Itchy wrote up his trip after the first few weeks, least i've not seen a write up, just heard something about his bike being stolen I think, prior to that is was about muggings and misery.

[c-m]

Found this! its just for America and looks like quite an overspend to me:

https://2uprtw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202&Itemid=136〈=en

10,000CAD on food while in South America. I don't spend less than half that here and I eat takeaway alot and buy all sorts of expensive rubbish.

[tatters]

Two very useful forums for info, Hubb of course is the best one.


https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/

https://www.advrider.com
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[Itchy]

[Clanger]

If you are considering India, then you can hire a bike for as little as 150 Rupees a day (approx £1.80), eating is cheap (if you opt for freshly cooked street food...e.g. samosa's 4 Rs each, Thali 25 Rs, Masala Dosa 25 Rs) then there is water, petrol and oil.

I have friends who do tours of India every single winter; they have a flat in Goa where they go initially to prepare themselves and get a tan, because the more swarthy looking you are - the less you will be treated like a tourist (basically a walking wallet). And then they pack up their bikes and off they go.

The laws of the roads are something else, they have many more dangers out there, 'might has right' - plus there are cows, donkeys, camels, horses, dogs, carts, bikes, mopeds and oversized trucks on every road, and often they don't use the carriageways correctly.
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[Clanger]

Actually I just noticed this - https://www.mpldigital.com/mortons-media/motorcycle-monthly/

has a section of motorcycling in India.
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