Rockets Across Oz, literally...

[mr hunt]

G'day blokes,

Any suggestions (other than the train) for transporting a Rocket from Perth to Melb for the GP and therefore RDU 2014?

Don't have the time to ride across and back and can't seem to find an R3 for hire anywhere in Vic. It is cheaper to hire a bike for 10 days than it is to ship it across and back on the Indian Pacific????

I reckon Mrs Hunt deserves a trip up the GOR on a Rocket but will happily compromise on a lesser machine if I have to hire one..

All thoughts appreciated....

Mike

 

[ponters]

G'day blokes,

Any suggestions (other than the train) for transporting a Rocket from Perth to Melb for the GP and therefore RDU 2014?

Don't have the time to ride across and back and can't seem to find an R3 for hire anywhere in Vic. It is cheaper to hire a bike for 10 days than it is to ship it across and back on the Indian Pacific????

I reckon Mrs Hunt deserves a trip up the GOR on a Rocket but will happily compromise on a lesser machine if I have to hire one..

All thoughts appreciated....

Mike

Mate, Speak to TC, i reckon he'd have a good idea. Also he'll be coming from WA (he may not know, think or want to but ive got 14months to bust his nuts about it) so maybe able to work something out together.

Depending on how many WA blokes are coming over to RDU we might be able to organise a truck to fit you all in and share the cost?

 

[ruzzle]

Easy peasy. Pay my return air fare and I'll ride it for you. Cheapo!!

Indian Soporific won"t take bikes.

 

[mr hunt]

Easy peasy. Pay my return air fare and I'll ride it for you. Cheapo!!

Indian Soporific won"t take bikes.

Yeah but they will take trailers.....only problem there is the bike is uninsured if I send the enclosed trailer and say it's 'empty'...


...as for your very generous offer..........well, uuuuuum ahhhhhh....i'll keep it in mind

 

[Mittzy]

I was just reading this post when I glanced to the bottom of the page to find this link.
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[TOMCAT]

Hunty I know a bloke in Perth that runs a transport company .. brought a few bikes back and forth for me . Think last time it was $500 one way but don't quote me , was a while ago now. As Ober-Grupenfurer Ponters pointed out the more the merrier and I will be doing my best to get over for RDU '14. Happy to get a quote when my mates here to do a quote on all our humble belongings to be moved West .. be moving over Oct by the look of it mate.

 

[TOMCAT]

Truck the bikes to Adelaide and then ride them to Melbourne GOR better from the SA end I reckon .. great ride and a shorter plane trip .. ticks all the boxes.

 

[CanberraR3]

Bloody good thinking. Get a truck load over. RDU WA may not be so hard after all.

 

[Malcy]

Truck the bikes to Adelaide and then ride them to Melbourne GOR better from the SA end I reckon .. great ride and a shorter plane trip .. ticks all the boxes.

Do that and I'll ride over to meet you. Would be a good, decent run for me. Hmm

 

[CanberraR3]

By the way, it's been flat out at Joe's for the last 2 weeks fitting tyres and selling (approved) helmets and other gear to the local Rebels. They all left on Thursday, about 70 or so, to ride to Perth for the national Rebels get together. They were planning 1,000km days and were meeting up with other chapters at Port Augusta and then riding over together.

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Be interesting to see how they go. I'm sure more than a few of them had no idea what they were in for. Those that did were buying practical stuff, even full face helmets and rain gear. But some were buying undersized open faces so they could shave the liner down. 8,000km in an open face, hanging onto ape hangers!

Have to say that appart from a couple of blokes who thought they were sh1t hot, they were a decent bunch of guys. Meeting them at a bike shop probably helped.