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Posted: Wed Oct 1st, 2008 03:35 pm |
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Hello! I am in Japan without my Bonnie which is back home in Wales, UK. It needs some work but is there anyone here living in Japan with an interest in Triumphs? I would LOVE to bring my Bonnie over here and work on it ... dream on or realistic 
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hondapartsman
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 07:48 am |
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Hi and welcome, sounds to me like getting you Bonnie over there would depend on how long you expect to be over there. I would imagine getting bikes into Japan etc is not so easy but have no doubt there are people over there who make a living doing it for others, maybe you ought to ask around. Maybe you are hoping doing this is like that but I have a feeling you will have to also try elsewhere, good luck!
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 10:46 am |
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MV, from my experience of being in the USAF stationed in Okinawa in the early 80s I think you'd be better off not trying to get your Bonnie to Japan.
1) The shipping costs would be a little higher than the rest of the world
2) The shipping time would be extemely long unless you're going to be ther for years
3) Japanese import duties I would think would be high
4) Japanese safety standards are strict and expensive
5) Availablibity of parts would be next to non-existant unless someone there could make the part you need
Being in the military we could have our own personal vehicles shipped overseas at government expense if we had the apporopriate rank on it was printed on our travel orders. Due to #2,4, and 5 hardly anyone did. A few did but only a few.
As much as I don't care for Japanese bikes, you'd be better off getting one of those for your time there or seeing if there might be any British bikes in the area that you might be able to get. Leave the Bonnie there in Wales as something to look forward to when you return home eventually.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17th, 2008 11:33 am |
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| I agree with 850, make sure someone is looking after the bonnie so its not rotting in a damp shed and buy a nifty little Jap 400 or 250. I think getting anything bigger over there (except riding in as a tourist on your own bike and out again) is going to be expensive and time consuming. I have read at least one account of a tour of Japan by an expat living there on a 400cc bike he had bought so it must be do-able.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17th, 2008 11:50 am |
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Hi Welcome to the Funny Farm.
How long are you going to be in Japan?
Somebody's going to say it, so it might as well be me 
"My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My Bonnie lies over the sea.
My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me."
Last edited on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 11:52 am by Velton
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