Motorcycle hire

[F5 Dave]

Does anyone have any recommendations re mc hire from Wellington? The Harris’s have closed & I’d hardly recommend throwing $ their way.

I have a mad step uncle who is coming out to NZ & wants to tiki tour around for a bit in the SI, but he wants to leave from Wgtn. Most outfits seem to be based in Auckland or Chch.

Any experience with them? I might just suggest he takes another flight to chch. I’d lend him my tourer but he toppled the last hire bike over turning around & the RF is considerably heavier (but not as tall) as the Pegasus thingy he had.

Besides I’m washing its hair that week. Yeah that's a good excuse.

[Paul in NZ]

Talk to the hire companies..

They are based in chch / akl for obvious reasons. Thats where the main gateways are but they are always relocating bikes in either direction. Dropping it off in wellie will be no problem I think.

[kerryg]

Does anyone have any recommendations re mc hire from Wellington? The Harris’s have closed & I’d hardly recommend throwing $ their way.

I have a mad step uncle who is coming out to NZ & wants to tiki tour around for a bit in the SI, but he wants to leave from Wgtn. Most outfits seem to be based in Auckland or Chch.

Any experience with them? I might just suggest he takes another flight to chch. I’d lend him my tourer but he toppled the last hire bike over turning around & the RF is considerably heavier (but not as tall) as the Pegasus thingy he had.

Besides I’m washing its hair that week. Yeah that's a good excuse.

There's definitely a bike hire place in Nelson. Can't remember the name but they hire out Harleys and Beemers etc etc. Might be Thunderbikes???

[moko]

Does anyone have any recommendations re mc hire from Wellington? Any experience with them? I might just suggest he takes another flight to chch. ............. the RF is considerably heavier (but not as tall) as the Pegasus thingy he had.

If he dosnt mind going to Christchurch I can personally reccomend these guys:

http://www.motorcycle-hire.co.nz/hire.html

Top blokes that went the extra mile for me and made my holiday a whole lot better than I was expecting by solving a problem at no small cost to themselves. They`re a good crew and look after their customers. They also supply riding gear in with the rental, well-used obviously but does the job and better than lugging a helmet and god knows half way around the world in my case. Better gear is available for a few dollars extra.If he wants to go up north and drop the bike off at their Auckland base that`s no problem, might be a neat way to end up his holiday, bit of a cruise up through North Island.
They do all kinds of bikes, including a few old but worthy war-horses for the budget traveller. I take it from you writing "Pegasus" and your description that he rides an Aprilia Pegaso. If so what he wants is an FS650 BMW, which is basically what he`s got,the older models were even built in the Aprilia factory and the motors are almost identical apart from the BM being a 4-valver, the Aprilia 5. He`ll be away from home on strange roads so a familiar-ish bike will probably be a good move.If you get in touch with the guys tell `em Dave from Plymouth sent you,might get me a discount next time round.

[F5 Dave]

ok I'll pass that on as a suggestion. Dunno what he has back home, he hired a 'prilla last time, but it was fairly tall which was the problem (didn't expect many people to know what a Pegasus was so didn't bother to explain).

[Posh Tourer :P]

Thunderbikes rings a bell as a name.

Used to work for Te Waipounamu M/C tours, but they are based in Chch and Akl. They may be able to do a Wellington if you give them enough notice

[moko]

Used to work for Te Waipounamu M/C tours, but they are based in Chch and Akl. They may be able to do a Wellington if you give them enough notice

That`s the guys I recommended. Good people, Darren in Auckland was a star("grab yourself a beer out of the fridge and I`ll give her a quick wash down") and John in Christchurch recently sent me some pics for a magazine article I wrote plus I believe it was on his say so that I found myself riding an 1100 BMW instead of the XT600 I`d booked because the XT was waiting on parts. My first experience of the Kiwi way of doing things and I was well-impressed, over here I`d have got shit-loads of excuses and probably my money back rather than any effort into sorting out any problem.