Bike transport

Looks like I'm getting a nice Black Blackbird, just need it collecting.
Best quote so far is £90 from Willenhall (West Midlands) to Flookburgh
(South Lake District).
Anyone do it for less? Can't be ridden, needs new tyre. Would prefer someone
who is fully insured!

 

90 quid would pay for the new tyre 'n' all..

 

<pessimist mode>
Organising a tyre fitter, then riding such a fast bike with a new tyre on
roads I am not use to, then a motorway and probably it would rain. I'd die.
</p>

Train fare, paying a premium for the tyre, plus the time it takes to train
there, ride back. £90 is worth it. First quote was over £200, which is
probably a price I would have considered collecting it in the pickup.

 

WTF is a bike for if not to ride it? Particularly as a motorway is the
safest type of road going.

 

hahaha - you so funny.

 

?

I really can't think of a safer place to get used to a new bike. Plenty
of lanes, no corners, no oncoming traffic.

 

I hate Motorways! Its full of BMW's and Audi's.

By the time I had got down there on a train full of screaming kids, I'd not
be in the mood to ride. It was bad enough getting the wife's MGF from
Stockport.

Also I haven't ridden for 12 months, so would like to get back into it
gradually.

 

You don't sound like you're cut out for a Blackbird, tbh.

Have you considered a scooter?

 

I had no problem with the GSX1100F, which I bought 3 months after passing my
test. I had a crash in 2004 (on a GS550M) and damaged my elbow, which still
causes pain when I ride. Which is why I sold the GSX, but then I went to
the docs and had an x-ray. Nothing out of place or wrong, most likely a
weak muscle (oh..suit you sir).

Hence wanting to get back into biking.

 

He sounds like little more than BGN fodder

 

Ha'vent you noticed tho's apostrophe fuckwit's are everywe're, and its
all-way's worse on Friday's....!

Somebody shoed call the Punctuation Police!!!!!!!?!?!!?!!

 

You'd be fine. Once you get back up past Preston on the M6 it's just
a big fast road, although I know Plod can be a bit oppressive around
Lancaster. Riding on roads you're not used to is part of the fun, and
you shouldn't be bothered about rain if you're a true Cumbrian. The
bike will only go as fast as you want it to, too.

Do it. YKIMS

 

I've had a brain wave, why doesn't the OP just ride with an ilegal
tyre FFS ?
just don't fall off or get pulled... and make the apropriate
allowances if it's wet.
from what he says about being a bit nervous, I'd say a worn out tyre
is less likely to kill him than falling off at high speed due to lack
of care or practice

 

Not frightened of a bit of danger are you biker boy?

 

Post corrected.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Shrunk in the rain, eh?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Pip, I say PIP, old chap. Seems to be something wrong here - someone
claiming an MIB# is failing to demostrate the essential blackness
within.

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Standards are slipping everywhere. The lights are going out all over
the empire etc etc etc..

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Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Drew. H

Can I just point out that the new toy is black?

Thanks.

I realise that I am lacking in the general blackness-of-outlook
department. And many of my clothes are of other, inferior hues.
Nonetheless, since the entrance barrier appears to have been lowered, I
request; nay DEMAND! my MIB #.

Especially since I'm not the sort of **** who fails to snip sigs.

I await your response, etc, etc.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando
Kawasaki GTR1400

 

You haven't even posted any pics of it yet, well not according to the cheesy
server which isn't the german swerver IYSWIM