BIKE TRANSPORTATION Special Feature

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.