Kindda Stuck at Mt St. Helen, WA

[Slash5er]

So, been blasting across US 2 from east to west and started heading south from Everett WA. Along a forest road behind Mt St Helen, my riding buddy had a bit if a get off and broke a collar bone and dislocated his shoulder. I will be trying to get him and his bike back to civilization and hopefully ship his bike back to Virginia and him to his wife. If all goes well, we should be up near Olympia by tonight (Sunday).
Cell phone battery seems to have taken a dump but when plugged in I can get messages.
Any ideas or suggestions, let me know. :confused:
John Deikis
Chelsea, MI
734-395-7414

[frankenduck]

Did this happen on 25?

Bad news but glad to hear its "only" a collarbone.  Wish him well from us.

What kind of bike?

[TimTyler]

Just checked the Cruise America site.

Camper for two in Tacoma is about $800 plus .32/mile, which will run an additional $950 PLUS fuel costs.

Estimating about 12mpg, that's another $1000 is gas. So that's a $3000 trip if you eat cheap.

[frankenduck]

Don't worry about the bike right now.  Doesn't sound like your friend will be riding for a while.  Make sure he gets good medical treatment and gets through the physical/emotional trauma of it all.

Get the bike towed to somewhere where its safe for a few days and worry about transporting it later.  Depending upon how much damage there it to it it might not make economic sense to ship it all of the way across the country.

[BexarWolf]

If I still worked for Forward Air I could probably get you a deal but that option is gone.

However, they have VERY nice motorcycle containers and a really quick schedule.

forwardair.com

Towards the bottom left is the Motorcycle Shipping link. I think a medium container would be big enough but the dimensions are listed. Click the "check rates" and choose origin and destination. Seattle is the only terminal they have in Washington state and it looks like Detroit would be the closest destination to your home.

I checked the rates and a medium container would be $1,022.41. I don't remember if there are any other fees attached to that or not. There's a phone number for the Motorcycle division and they're really nice folks. It's about 4 days transit time.

One of the REALLY nice things is you can book it online with a credit card. Once they have your reservation, they'll email you when a container is available. Sometimes they have to have containers brought in from other stations and that can take another week or so but Seattle may have some on the dock.

If you need any help, let me know. I can still make phone calls and make some requests. I didn't burn any bridges when I left but I can't get "special pricing" any more.  :dunno2:

[Slash5er]

Thank you for the responses and suggestions.
Things came together pretty well, I think. I used the MOA Anonymous Book and reached a woman in Olympia who happened to be out on a Beemer Club camping weekend. She came home on Sunday and drove 90 miles southin her truck with trailer. Picked up my partner and his bike from the "No Vacancy" motel that the Randle, WA fire chief got us into with a speial phone call. The Olympia lady was like an angel and took us home, put us up and drove us around the next day. Today (Tuesday) Jim's back in Virginia, I have arranged for his bike (a R100RT airhead) to be truck-freighted back to his house (about $800 door-to-door), and FedExed 2 boxes of riding and camping gear. Spent one more night in Oly with our host and headed off for Crater Lake this morning. A lot of strangers helped us out in the last few days and it was truly humbling. Had some phone contact with local Motobricker, Tim Tyler, who just got back from a coast-to-coast blast in 10 days. cool shades

Meanwhile, the K75 purrs on and will hopefully take me down the Pacific Coast Hwy to visit a cousin in Mendocino and then down to San Francisco. Probably should head home from there since I didn't bring along any tire chains to get through the passes. :tongue

Cheers!
JohnD