Best way to transport wreck Syd-Tsv.

I've just bought myself an '04 955i Daytona as a donor bike. It's got
front and right side damage and isn't rideable.

I need to get it from Sydney to Townsville. It's strapped to a palette.

Bikes Only quoted $800. I'd like to do it somewhat cheaper.

Suggestions please. (Please limit suggestions to motorcycles and the
transport thereof.)

 

Rail ?

 

If you can get it crated and packed in appropriate padding you can
probably get it sent much cheaper - will the vendor pack it for you
for a reasonable price ?

JL
(just a thought I've not tried to do what you ask, just trying to be
helpful)

 

If you can get it crated and packed in appropriate padding you can
probably get it sent much cheaper - will the vendor pack it for you
for a reasonable price ?

JL
(just a thought I've not tried to do what you ask, just trying to be
helpful)

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John Littler....don't or can't you fucking well read??

The way that Doug posted it I thought it was obvious it was already packed

""It's strapped to a palette.""


just trying to be helpful

 

Oh Dear
properly boxed should make it easier to move and stack as opposed to
an odd shape bike on a pallet...
now point and whistle G

 

Now, being a bloke who sends stuff around the country - I would not
assume 'It's strapped to a pallet.' means 'It is suitably packed for
transporting a fair distance'.

However, a pallet sent road express by someone with an account (say Toll
Express) from Melb - Bris will be about $300.

Check the 'cubic' allowance if it is standing up on the pallet - if it
is standing up it will pretty much guarantee it is top loaded (loaded on
top of other cargo rather than buried under stuff).

To be truly sure of not damaging it in transit a cage would have to be
built around it - but - you would probably get away with covering it in
wrap and 'Top Load Only' stickers.

The trick to getting a good rate is to have it booked by someone with an
account.

 

Being strapped to a pallet (which is flat and open) isn't quite the same
as being inside a crate (which is 3D and closed).

Maybe you should learn to read first, before abusing others for imagined
shortcomings?

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Shirley BS must stand for bullshit

When and if you ever buy a bike from overseas, the carriers will say do you
want it crated ot on a pallet?
The crated bit means fully enclosed in a box,
the palleted bike means on a steel pallet , covered in plastic, but without
the sides and top

http://www.bikenut.com.au/motorcycle-transport-motorbike-transport-services.php

 

Absolutely. That's why I picked it.

And GWF must stand for "Girls Wont ****"? Not surprising, really.

Indeed. Which is exactly what I said, and exactly what you attacked JL
for, despite him saying the same thing.

Your memory must be going the way of your intellect...

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Responding to every inanity offered by GWF hardly does you any credit.
Perhaps you could stop.

 

So you responding as well achieves *what* exactly...?

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But he responded to you, not stupid-George.
Are you saying you're just as moronic and inane as his Georgeliness?
That's a big call; comparing yourself to a poster with such a history of
relentless and compound stupidity!

 

OK, I've had enough of this!

I get creamed for being abusive by The Überabusive Slav From Hell,
who is some kind of hero here because he's a hoon who has somehow
managed to figure out how to get published by bike magazines (not a
particualry dfficult feat, eh Clem?), when there is clearly a
siginificant percentage of posters here who don't mind dishing out
abuse whenever it suits THEM. They just don't think it's abuse when
THEY do it, they think their're being COOL.

Continually, systematically abusing the same person is called
cyber-bullying. There's a bunch in here who think this is cool. Like
all bullies, they justify their behaviour by blaming the victim for
the bullying.

I am even guilty of this myself. But at least you won't find me
whacking up a barrage of denial and obfuscation about it, and I do
like to balance my bullying out by bullying the bullies as well.

Can we stop picking on George? Can we stop ridiculing him?
Can we stop the campaign to discourage people talking to him?

Or perhaps we'd rather call a spade a spade and rename this newsgroup
Biker Bullies and Abusers Central. I can play it eiher way. I'm
dysfunctional enough to keep dishing it out till your arseholes bleed
and even derive satisfcation from it, but is this REALLY what you
stupid cunts want?

And let's not kid ourselves that "subtle" ways of ridculing or abusing
are "better" and more "civilised" than the blatant stuff.

Google "Passive aggressive behavior" and get a clue.

Now **** off and abuse your friends for Xmas!


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

OK, maybe the term "passive aggressive" is a bit oblique to this
discussion, but if you google "types of verbal abuse" you might just
begin to wake up to yourself.

Then again, we can make it all just too hard, and dismiss, ridicule
and invalidate those who write/talk about this stuff.

Me? I'm a hypicrite. But what about you?


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

...... hypicrite ......

Here come the spelling flames... Oooooer... How mature...


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Gerry, petal.... you're muttering to yourself and responding to your own
posts... a case of "heading the flamers off at the pass", or are you losing
the plot? <betty makes Gerry a nice cup of tea>

 

Gerry you missed Clem's point.

Andrew grumbled about BS replying to George (obviously because that
pulls GWF out of Andrew's kill file ) and included a comment that
sparring with George makes you look stupid

BS replied that Andrew's response was hardly edifying

Clem pointed out that there was a logic flaw in that riposte as Andrew
was replying to BS not to GWF

Have we caught up now ?

OK, back to your keyboard explosions

JL

 

Don't forget the Bex and a nice lie down !!

JL

 

Betty has a point Gerry.

Also I'd add that moving a group of motorcyclists (or their opinions and
actions)(let alone this group) has been described as rather like herding
cats.


G-S

 

See that Gerry.....?

Feltching at its best.