How far have you gone to get a bike?

[skippa1]

Flew Nelson to Aucks, picked up the bike and headed off the next morning at 7am, raining when I left. Pissing down in fact. By the time I was half way to Hamilton, I was wishing I hadnt brought a slammed Harley......arrived in Wellington at 3.30pm, rained all the way down, ferry was delayed by the weather and sailed at 7.30pm -arrived in Picton midnight, arrived back in Nelson at 1.30am the next morning, it was wet the whole way. The side shots had my right ear ringin, saturated and my arse and back hated the Harley. Sold it 8 weeks later.

[jasonu]

I had a bike I bought on ebay shipped 2000 miles across the states. Don't know if that counts though...

[unstuck]

Picked my XR600R up from pakiri and rode back to gore, only took me 2 weeks.

[Eddieb]

Not that far but I flew Wellington to upper south island for 2 out of the last 3 bikes, the one before that came from up near Dargaville.

[wickle]

Early this year was flown to Timaru from Napier picked up bike (BMW K1200R) for new owner he could not doit himself and transporters could not get it here in time. Half hour after arriving was heading north back to Napier (817.6Km ) all exspenses paid trip. AWesome trip and bike !

[slofox]

I just went to the local bike shop...

[scumdog]

Riding a bike that sort of distance home means you get the feel of the bike very quickly.

I had only ever ridden the XN85 around the block prior to riding it the 500km home while nursing a storming hangover - THAT gets you the feel of a bike PDQ!

[breakaway]

Auckland -> Wellington (by bus, 7.30PM departure) arrive at 6AM

Check bike, do deal

Wellington -> Auckland (SV650S), departed approx 8AM after breakfast, arrived at 7.30PM

[Big Col]

Mate left Nelson 2am rode to picton caught boat, rode to waikanae coffee stop and then rode to Auckland, hopped off trade in and onto new bike then rode back to Waikanae. Got to Waikanae just before 2am.

[Brayden]

Noone mentioned finance yet? 2k Into overdraft, now I'm getting shafted! Could sell the bike to pay it off but I love it too much!

[sleemanj]

Flew to sunny Nelson from Christchurch somewhat spur of the moment with money in my pocket, an ad of a bike I was keen on in Motueka (an XV250 at a time before there were many 250 cruisers around), and that was about it as far as a plan went. Got a shuttle into town late on a saturday afternoon and walked around till I found a cheap bed, bus to Motueka the next day and walked to the guys house, test rode and waved sufficient notes under his nose.

As I was leaving he said "do you want to check the battery water before you go". I didn't pay much attention to his words. This was a mistake.

Rode back that afternoon. Went smoothly (apart from a close encounter with a pig, and basically riding on fumes a couple of times) until Culverden when I filled up and smelt something sulphurous, but didn't put two and two together until she went bang and died on the motorway at the Kaiapoi overbridge well after dark. Regulator was obviously pumping some big ass voltage and boiled the battery dry.

Pushed it over the bridge and down into some side street under a street light where I stripped it down (I had thought to carry some tools at least, not that I knew what I was doing), knocked on some random house with a light on and got some water to put in the battery to at least get an electrical circuit happening, and luckily managed to get her push started on that and she ran on one cylinder all the way home, one of the coils had got fried in the process.

[Blackshear]

I've always made them come to me.
250 was ridden to my driveway and purchased (free gloves!) and the guy just bussed back home over the bridge.
TL was delivar'd to my door (at some monetary expense, admittedly).

One day.

[rastuscat]

Flew from Chur Chur to Palmy North, rode the bike back home.

Loved it. Though leaving Palmy at 5.00 in pissing rain to get the early ferry was a drag.

Still, I like drag.

(Did I say that out loud?)

[jade911]

1st bike: GN125, took a ute 2 hours drive from Whangarei to Auckland, and back.

2nd bike: GN125 (first lost a challenge from a car), trailer from Whangarei to Palmy and back

3rd bike: VL250 (suz intruder), about 500m down the road :-)