BIKE TRANSPORTATION Special Feature

Australian Motorcyclist Issue #30

• MOTOmania
• FROM THE CAVE
• BORIS
• NEW BIKE PRICES
• WHAT SAY YOU?
• CLASSIC MORRIS
• LONG TERMERS
• TEAR-OUT MAP #15
• NEW IN THE SHOPS
• TECHNICAL
• USED & REVIEWED
• PUB OF THE MONTH
• BIKE TRANSPORTATION Special Feature
• TOP TOURS & TRAVEL
• Special Feature Tyres
• HISTORY
• EVENTS
• POSTIE NOTES 8
• TECHNICAL
• TEAR OUT MAP #30
• BIKE LAUNCH
• READER’S RIDE
• COMMUTING
• TRAVEL
• BIKE TEST
• EVENTS
• NEWS
• FROM THE BEAR
• EDITOR SPEAKS

SHIPPING MOVE THAT BIKE WORDS THE BEAR

A Bikes Only semi, out on the Darwin run.

We try to be like the Marines, here at MOTORCYCLIST, and leave no rider or bike behind. But it doesn’t always work out. A couple of times in my long moto journo life, test bikes have ‘failed to proceed’ and have had to be left behind. One was at Nullarbor Station, predictably enough in the middle of the Nullarbor Plain; the other was in Queenstown, Tasmania, down in the far south-west. In both cases, the distributors who had provided the bikes had to use non-specialist transport companies to get their bikes back. I’ve never seen bikes, other than ones that had been totalled in a crash, with so much damage.