Tue Apr 22 12:13:37 1997 - Message No. 673
From: Robertson Philip

Subject: Eureka #2 - Finding an @


Got one at last.

Thanks to everybody who responded to my 'Prices and Availability'
messages back in March, particularly Stefan Loth for giving me the info
on his local dealer where I got the bike and Michael for running the
list.

I settled for a '95 RD07 for DEM 12000 which I'll be driving back to the
UK next week hopefully. I didn't get a chance to try an RD04 as Stefan's
old bike had been sold but I couldn't believe the handling of the RD07.
The weight feels so low for the size of bike and my first time on an @
it was cornering like I'd been riding it for years.

Here's what I picked up during my search:

- If you find a bike in the UK you're a better man than me! Paul's '92
RD04 sounds a lot better than the 2(!) bikes I've seen since Christmas.

- There's lots of them in France. French prices are higher than German
prices but Paris is cheaper/easier to get to. I went to 4 dealers
in/around Paris in a day and saw 7 @'s - I've got the details if
anybody's interested.

- Stefan's local dealer had 2 - it's the only place I've been to in
Germany so I don't know if this is typical.

- Mick Rueger suggested looking at http://www.zannonces.ch/edicom/ for
bikes in Geneva/Lausanne. These seem to be the cheapest I've seen but
there's the issue of importing into the EC.

- UK Customs aren't interested if a vehicle is secondhand, from an EC
country and has done over 5000 (km or miles I can't remember), there is
no charge to register the vehicle in the UK and you can insure the
vehicle on the frame number only.

And finally (at the risk of being thrown off the list) some politics :-)

I'll be voting for a single currency and removal of border controls (is
any party promoting this?)

Regards, Phil


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