Cole
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Total cost to get the bikes home £3,800.00 mainly because they are deemed to come under The Dangerous Goods Act which doubles the price and quadruples the paperwork ....
Once in to India he was going to freight his bike back to New Zealand anyway. They were quoting The Dangerous Goods Act to him
Hey Micky, glad to hear you guys are safe and well now. Jealous you are back in the UK. (I wont be back till December now!)
For what its worth, under air freight rules, motorbikes are considered 'dangerous goods'. I couldnt even fly bikes domestically in Russia without the dangerous goods label being bandied about. I do hear of stories of people who get away without that, but it strikes me as lucky that they got a freight forwarder who doesnt know that a motorcycle is dangerous goods.
Rumour has it that you can pull both wheels, the forks, and the handlebars off and get away with calling the whole lot "second hand motorcycle parts", which is then not 'dangerous goods'. But never tried that yet