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Registering an imported bike (Japanese M400)

Started by slowpoke13, August 11, 2010, 04:31:48 PM

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GAAN

#15
August 11, 2010, 11:14:29 PM
wouldn't it be easier to find a parted out frame and just swap all your m400 parts onto it?

ducatiz

#16
August 12, 2010, 01:48:19 AM
Mother is correct, but what's the fun there?  Lol
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slowpoke13

#17
August 12, 2010, 04:53:35 AM
I'll keep that in mind. But, if it takes the effort to get registered, I think she'll be with me for a while.
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redxblack

#18
August 12, 2010, 05:29:40 AM
Someone in the Buffalo NY area sold an M400 on craigslist earlier this summer. They had that bike legal and registered. I don't know if that helps at all, but there's at least one stateside and on the road. Good luck.

ducatiz

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August 12, 2010, 06:23:02 AM Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 06:26:43 AM by ducatiz
Quote from: redxblack on August 12, 2010, 05:29:40 AM
Someone in the Buffalo NY area sold an M400 on craigslist earlier this summer. They had that bike legal and registered. I don't know if that helps at all, but there's at least one stateside and on the road. Good luck.

It helps IMMENSELY if someone else has already converted one.  You can use the same letter of conformance. 

Bingo!

**Edit

Something tells me they did a frame swap.  The list of eligible vehicles (i.e. previously converted foreign vehicles) does not show the M400.  The differences in the 600 and the 400 models are minimal, they could have done an engine swap.



Page 8 has all the Ducati models that have been converted to date.  If it is not on the list, that doesn't mean it can't be imported and converted, only that its eligibility is unknown -- and it has never been imported legally.
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

slowpoke13

#20
August 12, 2010, 08:16:25 AM
So, mine could be the first and only "legally"

Nice
slowpokesan

ducatiz

#21
August 12, 2010, 08:17:53 AM
Quote from: slowpoke13 on August 12, 2010, 08:16:25 AM
So, mine could be the first and only "legally"

Nice

cough cough $$$$ $$$$ cough cough..
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

lethe

#22
August 12, 2010, 04:03:29 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 12, 2010, 08:17:53 AM
cough cough $$$$ $$$$ cough cough..
however you forget, it's one of a kind and therefore worth at least one million dollars on Craigslist
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ducatiz

#23
August 12, 2010, 04:09:29 PM
Lol
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