Finding the right bikes

How we found the right bikes for us

In our little Kingdom of Denmark the marked for used bikes is not that great - we kinda only have 2 sites for it (+ all the dealer ships that more or less only use the first site):

• 123mc.dk which is the "official" new and used motorcycle marketplace
• Facebook Market place - which is where people try to sell first or on the side

We filtered by RD07's as RD04 and RD03's are more or less out of stock and the RD03 is "only" 650cc.

All in all when we started searching and found 4, yes you read that right, 4 RD07 XRV 750's in Denmark.

• Two of them were out of our budget.
• One was close enough to go have a look at - great bike, but unfortunately it has been restricted to 48HP aka restricted for A2 license.
• The fourth we got in contact with (of course at the opposite side of the country). It had a kind of metalic scrape/knocking in the video we got from a coldstart which non of the YT videos show or talk about nor in forums, so we skipped that one.

So we were left with the choice to either wait for 2 XRV 750's to appear out of the blue for us to buy or ... find 2 bikes else where in EU and import them...

Finding the bikes ...

Sweden is locked down so unless you have a Swedish citizen identity then you can't login and communicate with people on blocket.se which is kinda understandable. Norway is the same, but the prices there are more expensive (for everything) and we only found 1 bike there. Germany had lots of XRV 750's on mobile.de which was nice.

We researched the import procedure... oh what a mess of public authority information and forum histories of people with good intensions but no practical insights to the actual procedure. Anyhow we found out that to buy a bike in Germany then you have to

• have the seller deregister the bike
• have both Teil I and II of the registration papers (Teil II indicates that there is no debt in the bike)
• some papers showing TÜV of the kilometers the bike has ridden over time
• A CoC (Certificate of Conformity) for the bike model

So armed with that information we started contacting people on mobile.de... we contacted like 40 or 50 going from the bike we'd like the most to just get a response.

In the week we tried to contact German sellers we started looking else where in EU and ended up in France on www.leboncoin.fr which to say it nicely has better kept bikes (we think it is because of the weather compared to Denmark or Germany). Anyhow in France we contacted the same amount of people.

No response from anyone. We think it is because they thing we are scammers - which is fully understandable since we are not from Germany or France...

I work in a big global company and have a few French collegeages and had a chat with them about how to open dialog with French sellers which helped.

During the French fase we got a reply from one lady in Germany and setup a transaction date where my brother and I would drive to southern Germany with a trailer and pick it up and as the date got closer to the pickup date a week we got a reply from France, a british guy in Franch.

We now had 2 bikes to pick up and we only had to go get the bikes