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[470four]

Right.

Now I've got your attention, I need a little help & guidance...

Tomorrow (Wednesday) Im off to [s]sunny[/s] Wales to view a motorcycle & see if it meets my wants & needs? If it does - and I'm 99.27% sure it will - it will need picking up at a later date... I'm off now until Saturday night (7pm til 7am) & Sunday night the same.

Options:

A) Get a lift out and ride it back from Newport - potentially quite fun, allowing for weather conditions, acts of God & breakdowns etc...

B) Find someone with a van/bike trailer & offer them £Sterling & alcohol to drive out with me & liberate said beast.

C) Get the train out & ride the bike back - would incur a large taxi fee to get to that part of the Valleys...

D) Bribe the seller to ride the bike out to me in Trowbridge, I could give him a lift back?

All dependant of course on whether I actually get the bike or not? Im inclinded to go for option B at the mo, would be the safest given what looks to be a wet couple of days & never having ridden the bike before?

Anyone?

[R1chie]

Maybe Clulas will help you out.


Oh.....hold on....

[Caz]

Have a look at the bike first and then if you decide you are going to buy it then weigh up your options as i need several days to make up my mind ;D

[BB]

Is it a Ducati? :

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[njl]

I'd say B is your least risky. I've taken the train to Northampton before to get a £500 ebayer car but with bikes always go with a van.

I usually get a rental transit for a day for about £40, then scrounge round for a ramp.

If you want to option A i'm free tomorrow.

[470four]

I'll give Williams a call and see how much I can rent a van for?

Anyone have a loading ramp handy?

EDIT: £55 + diesel for a hi-top transit... will need a ramp + ratchet straps.

[Kevinb]

Get a lift or the train and ride it back. When we got my wife's bike we bought it from a chap just outside Cardiff and I rode it back. It's a CM250 and those who know me will know how funny it must have looked with a 300lb 6'5" monster on it.

[njl]

has it been used daily or sat laid up for months? If the latter I would still be cautious of a ride home on it. Though if you are viewing today give it a damn good going over (of yourse you will be anyway), you'd not want to be running back from wales with a binding brake caliper or knackered chain...or...or..!

[470four]

Has been ridden recently, am taking a checklist, an open mind & front & rear paddock stands...

Is 57 miles back home which to be fair is +/- your average rideout? I have good breakdown cover so if it does all go wrong Im good, just stand to get wet. :-/

[BB]

Ghost & I did 100 miles 2 up on the triple to look at a bike on Sunday. He wanted to ride it back but we couldn't complete the deal on the day so he's going back tomorrow. It is a minter tho'.

The guy that brought my Duke came down from London by train, walked round it a couple of times, did the deal and rode off to Birmingham knowing full well the belts are overdue for change and the furthest it had gone since Nooj cleaned it at the PB last year was across Trowbridge! The confidence of youth! (He did txt to say he got home ok)

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