Motorcycle delivery cost

Motorcycle delivery cost

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CrankyCraig

Original Poster:

69 posts

71 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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I've spent the last few evenings trawling though the various used bike websites in search of a 125cc or less scooter for the wife, and I've all but lost the will to live.

Unable to discern any correlation between used scooter prices I've ceased caring. My criteria has now changed to the cheapest 100kg or so of nearly new Japanese scooter that can be delivered to the door, yet that doesn't appear to be as straight forward as I'd imagined it to be.

Is free or fixed price UK delivery just not a thing when it comes to motorcycles? Can't a few stamps be stuck to the bike and it be left against a postbox with the keys posted inside?

Rubin215

3,985 posts

155 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Get on gumtree and buy something local, bung the seller £20 to deliver it.

mad4amanda

2,410 posts

163 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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where are you some companies offer fixed rates for delivery as long as you are not highlands and so on?

FocusRS3

3,411 posts

90 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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CrankyCraig said:
I've spent the last few evenings trawling though the various used bike websites in search of a 125cc or less scooter for the wife, and I've all but lost the will to live.

Unable to discern any correlation between used scooter prices I've ceased caring. My criteria has now changed to the cheapest 100kg or so of nearly new Japanese scooter that can be delivered to the door, yet that doesn't appear to be as straight forward as I'd imagined it to be.

Is free or fixed price UK delivery just not a thing when it comes to motorcycles? Can't a few stamps be stuck to the bike and it be left against a postbox with the keys posted inside?
What brands are you considering and where are you based? You could go for a cheaper brand ad therefore the delivery costs wont matter so much maybe

Danm1les

783 posts

139 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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What area are you looking in and for how much? Surely there is hundreds of bikes within 20 miles of where you live unless your out on the outskirts somewhere?

dern

14,055 posts

278 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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You could use this site (https://www.deliveryquotecompare.com) to get quotes and you can even put a reference to an ebay auction so they can see what they're collecting. Best quote I had to collect a zx7r from Leicester to deliver to Newbury was about £140.

CrankyCraig

Original Poster:

69 posts

71 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Danm1les said:
What area are you looking in and for how much? Surely there is hundreds of bikes within 20 miles of where you live unless your out on the outskirts somewhere?
Exactly this, arse end of Cornwall, more than 100 miles from any meaningful civilization. I'm able to find lot's of very suitable bikes elsewhere around the country, but the local options are almost exclusively Lexmoto or tractors.

I can't afford to care too much about which Japanese scooter I would like, given the lack of options, preferably something which wont depreciate massively or dissolve the first time it rains like the Chinese bikes around these parts do.

I've never bought a bike from a store before, but it's surprised me a bit that in this day and age delivery terms aren't typically stated on the website.

PIGINAWIG

2,339 posts

164 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Just hire a van for fifty quid for the day, then you can go and look at three or four local bikes, even if they’re a hundred miles away and choose the best one. The van will be handy to load the bike in and deliver home.....

Rocket science it ain’t.....

CrankyCraig

Original Poster:

69 posts

71 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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PIGINAWIG said:
Just hire a van for fifty quid for the day, then you can go and look at three or four local bikes, even if they’re a hundred miles away and choose the best one. The van will be handy to load the bike in and deliver home.....

Rocket science it ain’t.....
If I could have found just one bike within a hundred miles of here worth buying I wouldn't have started this thread.

Lee540

1,586 posts

143 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Cornwall Kawasaki Centre
Anton Paris
Damerells
GT Motorcycles
Thor Motorcycles

Off top of my head.. you have all those guys in Cornwall.. (and Plymouth), more if you include Exeter.. between those you cannot find one cheap scooter?

In addition to this, these guys always have old scooters knocking around you might enquire..

- West Kernow Motorcycle Engineers (Longrock)
- Cornwall Bike Training (Penzance)
- K Williams, ask for Spike (Portreath)

Edited by Lee540 on Tuesday 24th April 10:03

Plinth

713 posts

87 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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I recently bought a bike from a dealer 175 miles away.
He charged £1 per mile (one way) for delivery, which I think is remarkably good value.

PIGINAWIG

2,339 posts

164 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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CrankyCraig said:
If I could have found just one bike within a hundred miles of here worth buying I wouldn't have started this thread.
If it’s not too personal - what’s your budget?

CrankyCraig

Original Poster:

69 posts

71 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Lee540 said:
Cornwall Kawasaki Centre
Anton Paris
Damerells
GT Motorcycles
Thor Motorcycles

Off top of my head.. you have all those guys in Cornwall.. (and Plymouth), more if you include Exeter.. between those you cannot find one cheap scooter?

Edited by Lee540 on Tuesday 24th April 10:03
Correct. Though I haven't been any further than their website. There was one listed as sold on one of those sites a few days ago which fitted the bill, just a bit too late to the game.

Plinth said:
I recently bought a bike from a dealer 175 miles away.
He charged £1 per mile (one way) for delivery, which I think is remarkably good value.
If that's what I could expect to pay, I could expand the search a bit

PIGINAWIG said:
If it’s not too personal - what’s your budget?
Not at all. Budget is quite flexible, but around the £1k mark seemed reasonable given what's available elsewhere, though I appreciate anything newer or from a dealer may be more. As stated, something Japanese that's done most of it's depreciating, and preferably lower mileage. HAS to be an automatic scooter rolleyes

Donbot

3,892 posts

126 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Took 2 mins. You appear to be making this difficult for yourself.

You may need to up your budget a bit for your list of requirements.

CrankyCraig

Original Poster:

69 posts

71 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Donbot said:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Took 2 mins. You appear to be making this difficult for yourself.

You may need to up your budget a bit for your list of requirements.
So it seems. Excellent work that man. Thank you very much thumbup

Donbot

3,892 posts

126 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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No problem.

It has drum brakes, so if you end up with something like that tell your wife to use the front brake with caution as they tend to lock easily.

Rubin215

3,985 posts

155 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Donbot said:
No problem.

It has drum brakes, so if you end up with something like that tell your wife to use the front brake with caution as they tend to lock easily.
Since when?

Drums have significantly less stopping power than a modern disc so you're much less likely to lock one up!

tom_e

346 posts

98 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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£1 per mile one way seems to be the going rate from dealers.

Donbot

3,892 posts

126 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Rubin215 said:
Donbot said:
No problem.

It has drum brakes, so if you end up with something like that tell your wife to use the front brake with caution as they tend to lock easily.
Since when?

Drums have significantly less stopping power than a modern disc so you're much less likely to lock one up!
IME They are more difficult to modulate. You need to pull/press harder on the lever/pedal for the same braking force, but the transition from steady braking to locking is more sudden.

CrankyCraig

Original Poster:

69 posts

71 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Aaargh... I was all ready to buy this, and then I refreshed a search page and noticed this:

https://www.gumtree.com/p/honda-motorbikes/honda-v...

Just one of many preferable examples available elsewhere, and I now feel like I'm settling for something inferior because i'm impatient. Daft, really, because almost anything will do.

I'll sleep on it.