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zingdoozer
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PostPosted: 10:44 - 20 May 2019    Post subject: Motorcycle transport Reply with quote

Hi,
I would like to get a Honda VT125 Shadow delivered from Somerset to London and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or recommendations for motorcycle transport companies I could contact.
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PostPosted: 19:01 - 20 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.shiply.com/
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PostPosted: 19:17 - 20 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you were to lose your keys then your breakdown cover would take you and your bike home.

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PostPosted: 19:50 - 20 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Riiiide iiiiittt....

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zingdoozer
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PostPosted: 09:11 - 22 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks guys. I posted quotes on shiply, uship and anyvan and shiply appear to be the best for quotes.

I'm ending up with £100 for transport, with the previous owner kindly offering to take £30 off the bike cost to take some of the sting off the courier.

I did initially suggest I'd come down and ride it, however the previous owner dissuaded me saying it's far too much hassle and suggested transport. (He seemed like a sensible straight up lad, so didn't argue to strenuously Smile)
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PostPosted: 09:45 - 22 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

On a bigger bike that journey would be trivial. Wouldn't fancy it on a 125... certainly not one I hadn't personally checked over extensively.
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PostPosted: 10:00 - 22 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

HardlyDavidson wrote:
On a bigger bike that journey would be trivial. Wouldn't fancy it on a 125... certainly not one I hadn't personally checked over extensively.


It's only about 140 miles. Less than a tankful.
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PostPosted: 12:49 - 22 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

If riding it, I'd expect the train ticket to get to Somerset to cost more than the petrol to ride the bike back to London.
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PostPosted: 13:34 - 22 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
If riding it, I'd expect the train ticket to get to Somerset to cost more than the petrol to ride the bike back to London.


Somerset is the only place I've seen a farmer take a horse and cart to the local village pub, get pissed, be put in the cart by the landlord and the horse take him home.

The same pub that a patron asked if I was from Cheddar. When I said Weston-super-Mare there was sucking of teeth and 'that's a good long way to come for a drink, It's almost Bristol' Laughing

Funny people them Somersetonians.
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 22 May 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Riejufixing wrote:
HardlyDavidson wrote:
On a bigger bike that journey would be trivial. Wouldn't fancy it on a 125... certainly not one I hadn't personally checked over extensively.


It's only about 140 miles. Less than a tankful.


140 miles on a bike that, in reality, you know nothing about no matter how keen the seller. Still, if you have AA/RAC cover then just see how far you get Smile
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