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MOTOBRICK.COM => The MBdotCOM Community Center => Topic started by: wmax351 on February 04, 2015, 04:42:45 PM
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Anyone have any tips? Need to ship the bike from the San Francisco area to the Baltimore-Washington area.
I got accepted for an Oak Ridge Associated Universities fellowship with the Division of Transplantation in the US Department of Health and Human Services in Maryland. Will be working doing statistical analysis of organ allocation through the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. So should be quite cool. But need to get my bike out there.
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As Johnny would probably say........ ride it...... :2thumbup:
When are you going.
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Congratulations on the new career. Hope it goes well for you.
You probably know that there are carriers who specialize in motorcycles which you can google. I don't have any experience with any of them.
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I've always had luck with Federal motorcycle transport which is a division of Allied Van Lines.
Best of Luck!
Rik
1985 K100RT
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As Johnny would probably say........ ride it...... :2thumbup:
When are you going.
I would ride it, but it's winter, the car and all my stuff has to go too, and needs to be by March 2nd. :P
I've always had luck with Federal motorcycle transport which is a division of Allied Van Lines.
Best of Luck!
Rik
1985 K100RT
I'll check them out too. Thanks.
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Wmax, maybe, and it's a big maybe, we can connect up out east.
My wife and I are flying out to Baltimore on March 2. We may possibly be there a couple of weeks, not exactly for sure yet how long.
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Wmax, maybe, and it's a big maybe, we can connect up out east.
My wife and I are flying out to Baltimore on March 2. We may possibly be there a couple of weeks, not exactly for sure yet how long.
Let me know when you get there, could be nice to meet up with a fellow motobricker. I've been spending some time here the last month and in the fall; my girlfriend is doing Teach for America here.
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greetings...
leave it at home and getts another for the east coast...
or... uship.com or 1-888-haul-bikes
thats what i have heard anyway... cause i ride them... not ship them...
ha ha ha...
look... go to uhaul... have them put a temporary hitch on there and rent their mototrailer...
yawl...
j o
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look... go to uhaul... have them put a temporary hitch on there and rent their mototrailer...
:2thumbup:
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look... go to uhaul... have them put a temporary hitch on there and rent their mototrailer...
yawl...
j o
I considered that. But would need to really flog my car to do it. Cheaper to just ship I think too. Need to add a hitch, ~300, and of questionable strength.
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I have been told my other that this gentlemen is reliable good and at a fair price. He is a private truck driver named Larry (209) 495-3729.
I have no personal experience with him just reports from others.
Motorcycle trailer is not heavy. What kind of car do you have? Take southern route of I10 then turn north east of the Appalachian mountain range so mostly gentle grades. Forget I70 or I80 just asking for weather troubles and steep grades in the Rockies.
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Leave with a friend on the west coast, fly back in spring-summer (cheap ticket) and ride back east, heck of a vacation. You're not going to be riding it in the NE till March anyway.
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One shipping company highly recommended on a local board I frequent:
TFX International: 1-888-415-3158 http://www.tfxinternational.com/ (http://www.tfxinternational.com/)
I read on this same board that uship are simply a brokerage web site that will auction your shipment off to a shipper. You might get lucky and end up with a shipping company who knows how to handle motorcycles properly; you might not.
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With a big enough u-haul, put the bike in it, with all your other stuff, and put the car on a trailer behind it.....
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Leave with a friend on the west coast, fly back in spring-summer (cheap ticket) and ride back east, heck of a vacation. You're not going to be riding it in the NE till March anyway.
In the 3 weeks I've been here for interviews, etc, I'd say there have been 10 days of rideable weather. :) I've ridden at 29 *F in California. I might ride it back, though, after the fellowship. Planning on starting medical school in Fall 2016, could be a fun "Last summer off till I retire" adventure.
I have been told my other that this gentlemen is reliable good and at a fair price. He is a private truck driver named Larry (209) 495-3729.
I have no personal experience with him just reports from others.
Motorcycle trailer is not heavy. What kind of car do you have? Take southern route of I10 then turn north east of the Appalachian mountain range so mostly gentle grades. Forget I70 or I80 just asking for weather troubles and steep grades in the Rockies.
I'll give him a call.
I've got an '86 BMW 325es. So quite small. Can theoretically haul 2000 pounds, though. The trailer hitches for them are a little funky and kinda expensive, they bolt to the bumpers (which are moveable on pistons for damping) and the spare tire well. They are only rated for 50 pounds of tongue force. Seems like a good way to cause serious damage with a "parking by feel" level of bump too.
I'm figuring that by time I get a trailer and hitch on, plus the extra gas and brake wear on the car, cost might be close to equal to just shipping it, and it cuts down drive time (55 mph vs 80 mph). Also changes the drive from kinda fun to purely a grind.
With a big enough u-haul, put the bike in it, with all your other stuff, and put the car on a trailer behind it.....
Sounds awful. Don't have much stuff to start with, and $1 a mile isn't good either. :P
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Picking up on Scott's suggestion and to get your BMW priorities in order, how about about selling the car and putting the bike in the U-Haul with your other stuff? I did this for a move on the west coast a few years back - quite enlightening (not to mention lightening)to have everything you own in one truck ...
Gio
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Picking up on Scott's suggestion and to get your BMW priorities in order, how about about selling the car and putting the bike in the U-Haul with your other stuff? I did this for a move on the west coast a few years back - quite enlightening (not to mention lightening)to have everything you own in one truck ...
Gio
I will actually have everything I own (well, need) in one car, plus the roof box. Lol. Wouldn't want to sell the car, it's a fairly pristine example, and I've put a lot of work into it (including rustproofing for the salt roads). Also, I will need a car, and don't want an east coast rust bucket.
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put your motobrick in your west coast garage... you know the one... down the lane from the donkey...
drive your salt proofed bmw to the east coast... buy a east coast motobrick...
when you vacate the east coast sell the motobrick... or perhaps you will have a proper cross county rig that will accommodate a $15 a day uhaul trailer...
you will be money ahead and worry free... all other options will be expensive and can cause whack... especially when you consider the rebound...
lotts of east coast motobricks for sale cheap right now...
j o
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+1 on copping an East coast K bike. You know you can never have too many...
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Welcome to Maryland. Come to Chestertown on the Eastern Shore and you can ride my 94 k75 for a day...has to be soon because it will soon have a hack attached. I'll show you what it's like to ride on a pancake-shaped sandbar -- which is basically what the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay is.
You can get a good brick here, reasonably priced. Lots of inventory -- there's one close to here you can probably get for $2K if you can stand the yellow...or just paint it for a couple hundred bucks. PM me and I'll send you the CL link.
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Nuthin' wrong with yellow. Everywhere you go it'll be the yellow brick road.
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Mines on the way. 500 door to door. (plus a nice tip to the driver: he pushed it for a good distance when they weren't able to pick it up where my dad had parked it.) Haulbikes is doing it.
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Got a link to those guys?
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Got a link to those guys?
http://www.haulbikes.com/
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Just picked up the bike last night. Ended up getting it from their warehouse in York, PA, since it was more convenient than trying to coordinate delivery at my work, and the same amount of driving to get my girlfriend to give me a ride.
I've been reunited! :clap: