BUYING A HARLEY DAVIDSON IN THAILAND. 

Thanks Susan... we are excited to be starting over in an amazing place.😊

Thanks Susan, yes it's been a busy few months. The best is yet to come.

Hi thanks for commenting ... Yes we have, Mig is an awesome person she has helped us so much.

Hi thanks for your comment. We are loving life here for sure.

Thanks for your comment. Some interesting videos to come with the bike.

Thanks so much for your comment. All the best for 2024.

Hi John and Lorna. Accidentally found your channel and amazed by your determination and speed of achieving your goals . I moved to Chiang Mai from the Gold Coast too but originally from Sydney . Permanently settled in Chiang Mai ,a place I first visited in 1980 and learnt to love . Welcome to what I call Shangri La. I'll follow your journey around Thailand and revisit via videos many places I've been to over the years. We live in San Sai and when you're around this area ,drop in.. Cheers,Tom

@@consulthai Thanks for taking the time to comment, much appreciated. I guess we've always been the types that once we have a plan we commit to actioning it 100,%. We also did a fair bit of research before doing anything and put trust in those we have actioned the bigger things through. So far so good. Let's catch-up for a coffee sometime.

Thanks @Old2Quick for your comment much appreciated. I thought about shipping our Road King over here but after looking into the importation duty cost of up to 70% based on the valuation here in Thailand I thought not. We were better off to buy here.

Thanks for your comment and your subscription much appreciated. We love our Harley.

Hi thanks for the comment and well wishes. From my understanding (and you may have heard from a better source than me) Harley bring in the parts to Thailand and assemble the bike here (I'm not sure of the pre-assembly percentage but I'll ask next week when I call into Richco Harley here in Chiang Mai). What I've been told is the bike componentry is imported into Thailand as this helps in lowering the taxation on the bike.( But not by much. A lot more expensive here than in Australia). Also Harley sends bikes to China via Thailand. As you know many exports between the countries have come under trade sanctions recently. So having a Thailand plant helps keep the market afloat in that respect. I only encountered one small problem on the day I picked the bike up and that was the gear shifter was positioned too low. I think being positioned for a smaller foot size than my size 12. 😂 Cheers John

Thanks for taking time out to comment. Yes the exact bikes. They import the parts and assemble the bikes at the factory located in Ban Pluak Daeng, Rayong, Thailand. They assemble the full range with the exception of the Trikes (correct me if I'm wrong). Harley seem to have parts being make all over the globe these days and shipped to central assembly points for manufacture.

Thank you for your quick response. That's very reassuring. I was hesitating assoon as I found out they were being "Built not Assembled only" in Thai. Looking into a RKS myself. Have a great journey ❤

@@enrico1856 when I ordered my Ultra it was assembled to order meaning the dealer placed the order directly to the factory and it was delivered 2 weeks later. My first experience of having that happen.

Wow never heard of that before... Does that means it was completely assembled in USA ? Awesome 😊

@@enrico1856 No, assembled in the Rayong, Thailand factory and shipped up to Chiang Mai. If it had come from the USA I'd probably only have received it. Its good for the dealers as they don't have to hold the floor stock on the more expensive models. It's the same for the CVOs here.

Pretty bad huh