Paging the transportisti: Sending a bike from UK to Spain how-to?

Seen in the UK (eBay) a nice vintage bike that weights (I think) 100
kilos.

Any hints on British transportation companies and their websites with
price simulators?

Thanks.

PS1: Let's see how it compares to the 140 kilos XR600 that I recently
sent from within Spain to Barcelona, 900kms. It costed about 100 euros.

PS2: Bear driving it down to Casa Carmichael would not be considered as
a safe mean of transportation )

 

wrote:

100kg - must be something very small and shite, then.

Try a van company. There are lots of small- to medium-sized vans doing
regular Continental runs these days. Do a Google search using the words
"Continent Freight Van Groupage"

 

I don't see why not. Then you could come down the deep south for a beer,
and ride the SOB up to Catalán country.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

A circa 1964 bike with 250cc, with less than 20cv is not what Bear would
fancy for such a long journey. I fear that he would trade it for beer (worst
of all, French beer) several miles past Calais.

Anyway, Bear is welcome to Barcelona.

 

Ok, thanks both.

 

<TOG@toil

When the bid is over I'll come back to this

 

Is it an aquatic bear? La Barceloneta is the neighbourhood at the beach,
where fishermen lived years ago

http://www.barcelona-on-line.es/mapa/original/Barceloneta.htm

 

Sounds ideal or the North Africa run.

It's that bad?

 

¡Ouch!

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Barcelona, barceloneses

but...
Gerona, gerundenses
Pamplona, pamplonicas
Tarragona, tarraconenses

 

Certainly it would be expensive.

70-80mph, you said?

 

60 would be more like it for a SO 60s 200cc 2 stroke.
In the majority of cases, you would be lucky to get that.

Think Honda C90 without the ability to be thrashed to death.
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
96 Tiger.
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

Gorrapera, gorraperasorenese.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

Why not simply bung it on the Plymouth-Santander ferry, to be collected?

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It's just a bit of cargo, same as any other. Fwiw, artic trailer units
are commonly loaded on ferries to be hoiked off at the other end by tug
tractor units that never leave the docks.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

The shite bike is a '64 Bultaco Saturno, a rarely sold "soft version" of the
'62 Bultaco Metralla, that at some 30hp could top more than 100mph , and in
1966 at the IOMTT set a speed record for its class that the Japanese could
only beat by the mid seventies. Don't know much about the Saturno exact
specs, but according to the site the engine is the same with a different
carb.