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Ta-Daaaaa!
Finally, after a torterous amount of time, money, effort and lest we forget the mountain of paperwork, Bobsan arrives from Australia and it has to be said is running like a dream in her new climate!
Muchos appreciatas to everyone who chipped in when it was needed. See you all out there sometime...
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hi folks,
not sure if this was the right place (again) so apologies if not.
my XVS1100 will be here in a few weeks and as i'm a good citizen i would like to pick up some old stock pipes before i take it to the DVLA to be registered and VOSA tested. only required temporarily (on the offchance someone local has a spare set) because i will off course be replacing them as soon as i'm on the road, needless to say with a government approved exhaust and big baffles to dampen down all that horrible engine noise that could disturb the native hedgehogs & sparrows.
best place to find stock pipes or known wreckers yards who deal with yamahas anyone?
Grave(ly compliant)
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Don't think I've had a bike I've regretted getting rid of but maybe thats just because of concentrating on the one its being replaced with.
Part of the fun (for me at least) with getting a new bike is what to do with it in the way of customising & tinkering and now I come to think about it I've always went slightly bigger on the engine size with the last couple being 1100's.
Don't think I could go down a size for a new bike to be honest but then 1100 does leave a lot of room for going up the way and not so much for going down anyway.
That said, I don't think if an opportunity to buy a new bike came up I'd buy it just because it had a bigger engine.
Grave(ly settling in back home)
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Ladies, Gentlemen and Hibs fans :-)
Securer than a really secure thing thats just been checked over for secureness by a security guard...
Don't always believe what you read on a label kids...
I did have a giggle at the "DO NOT DROP" line on the box. That was until I met the guy who came to pick it up today and now I realise it is fully justified.
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Mair chance o" the pirates buying you a drink on board,,,,
I'll have you know I once offered to buy a man a drink. Was in 1992, but it still counts!
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Do any of you folk appreciate what this bike may experience on the boat.
Somali Pirates?
Grave(ly immature)
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One very obvious question...
Why did you not ask how they strap the hrdly wrthits down to get them there.
Ahhhh, you're obviously confusing me with someone who makes life easy for themselves.
I just bet you're the kind of bloke who would ask why I would pack away all my tools BEFORE remembering to change the oil, filters, pods & plugs?
i have 8 straps here so will go with all points but maybe keep EFG on a low tension.
tried the bike in earlier today and was pretty impressed. very snug and could stand up on its own once the front wheel was i its cradle.
well, pickup team should be here in about 6 or 7hrs so i'm off into the garage for some quality time before they get here.
Grave(ly anxious)
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Oooohh, so no general consensus in here either then :-)
Thanks for all the tips people.
The steel-framed skid came from the local Harley dealer. They don't make them themselves, so its pretty reliable :-)
My thinking there was if it can get a Road King at over 350kg to Australia then it should be more than enough for a VStar at under 260kg. There was also no need for chocs, the frame is supported by the 2 cross sections you can see in the pic and I have at least a dozen ratchet straps to hand. Bike will also be wrapped/surrounded by a fairly hardcore corrugated cardboard with some major overkill bubble-wrap which I suspect will make it more comfortable than I'll be on the plane.
I did get a shipping crate from a local Yamaha dealer which had no steel frame in the base and was made from what looks like recon-plywood (a recycled board made from wood & paper pulp that can snap if you look at it too hard)
The strapping points on the bike is the remaining issue, especially around the forks & handlebars. Would be less stable unsupported, but strapping here could compress the forks.
At the risk of turning this into a spot the ball competition...
The plan thus far:
Loop around the rear wheel at point A. Straight overs with B, C, D, F. One strap per side for point H.
Looping around point G with one strap per side on the bars (E) currently debatable. Can't really remove the front wheel since I still need to get the bike picked up by a courier from port to Glasgow on the off chance they need to wheel the thing up a ramp into a van. Opinions of course welcomed and if anyone knows a reliable courier please let me know.
Less than 24hrs now until pickup time so if this lot doesn't get my wheels back to Glasgow in one piece then I'm putting it down to the conspiring of fates and an international plot by Yamaha so they can sell me another bike.
Grave(ly perplexed)
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heylo folks,
i have a rough idea of how to strap down a bike in a shipping crate and thought i'd double check by having a quick browse online but i get the impression that there are several views on the subject with no real clear definitive consensus.
anyway, thought i'd narrow it down and find out if you good people have a system you prefer or can advise on. havent had a bum steer in here with my endevours to get my bike back to the UK so far!
using a steel-framed skid which is forklift only (cant be suspended by straps) and i have plenty ratchet straps to spare.
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does that really work cos iv'e tried everything else,
the will still be plenty of summer left, grave have you got another bike in the meantime?
will be bikeless until ship reaches port, so probably looking at 6 or 7 weeks going without.
looking on the bright side though since it could be worse. it was touch & go for a while there that i could get the bike back with me at all.
Grave(ly optimistic)
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Naw, bawbags... haggis neeps & tatties, square loaf, lorne sausages, tattie scones, a few drams o' a Speyside, mind yer heid, Och Donald Wheere's Ya Troosers an' tha' Corries tunes played by the Ceilidh on a Thursdee night... and all the other stereotypey stuff that I actually can't go too long without!!
nae danger man, dinnae firget the pizza crunch an' all 'at ye ken?
Grave(ly linguistic)
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Welcome home Grave, first thing when you get home get your self a deep fried MARS BAR!
have never felt the inclination to try one and cant see that changing anytime in the near future.
i have however been hankering for a deep fried pizza for over 6yrs now and will be top of my "to do" list as soon as i get back
Grave(ly peckish)
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Howdy Anna, welcome to the forum and an extra welcome from a fellow Glaswegian
Grave(ly Glaswegian)
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I'm a Scot and have to confess I do not know anyone who is or ever has been a bagpipe player or even attended a Highland games.
You may have better luck asking here:
Blue Angels: http://www.blueangelsscotland.com/
Central Scotland Bikers: http://www.centralscotlandbikers.com/
Scottish Motorcycle Club: http://www.scottishmotorcycleclub.org.uk/
The one place I would recommend you visit if you're in Scotland other than Glencoe (obviously!) would be here:
http://www.stadiumguide.com/celticpark/
Grave(ly fiendish)
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hi folks,
just had it confirmed that the bike is good to go and will be picked up next Monday for shipping back home to the UK.
thanks to everyone who chipped-in with advice and assistance.
see you all in the fast lane soon...
Grave(ly ecstatic)
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I'm a big fan of farcebook myself. Everytime I log-in to see what the masses consider to be worthy of public comment, it makes me realise just how well adjusted I am.
Grave(ly horrified)
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Muchos gratias companeros!
I feel an order for a sidemount bracket coming on :-)
Grave(ly shopping)
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hi folks,
can anyone tell me if it is legal to display a number plate on the side (facing the rear of course) in the UK? been having a look through the UK GOV and DVLA sites and although it doesnt specify you can, it doesnt specify you cant either as far as i can see.
just double checking as over here in QLD most cruiser/harley riders have theirs on the side despite it being technically illegal so when i had my bobber conversion done i had my plate on the rear which unfortunately ruins the aesthetics a little.
Grave(ly perplexed)
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Hey,
I'm helping my pal import his Toyota just now and the most important doc required seems to be a certificate of conformity which should be supplied by the manufacturer's agent from the appropriate country. Obviously in your case this would be Yamaha Australia. You should also have a registration document, or equivalent, which should in it's own right confirm the bike's age.
Without these docs it's going to make the process more difficult but as Preload mentioned Yamaha themselves may be able to help?
Good luck with this! It seems at first like a huge amount of paper is required but it will all come together eventually.
Davie.
hi mate,
thanks for the pointers. i did spend a rather fruitless couple of weeks chasing a CoC document which turned out to be the one document that i dont need as the conformity approval number is actually stamped on the VIN plate in my case. also in QLD theres a weird situation where the transport dept here dont have any information on a vehicle other than what you tell them and given that they dont have a logbook system either it has been a challenge to say the very least.
i can now report however that thanks to a few key people i am now in the position of having just about everything i need so all going well myself and my bike should be on home soil within weeks.
on the plus side (if all goes well) i am now well versed in the whole process of moving a vehicle from QLD to the UK so anyone looking for assistance in the future need only to give me a shout so long as they already have an excess of patience, a big box to keep the mountain of paperwork required in, more patience, a good shipping agent and most importantly of all a rather large helping of patience.
if i remember rightly it took me about 4 weeks of on-going paperwork for the visa required to move from UK to Australia. its now taken me 5 weeks of on-going paperwork to get my own bike from Australia to the UK. hence the amount of patience needed.
Grave(ly lacking in patience)
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cheers folks. looks like your man here is one step closer to bringing the bobber star back home with him. happy days!
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hi folks,
not sure if this is the right room for this question but desperate times call for desperate measures.
the time for shipping my XVS1100 from Australia to UK is fast approaching and have just been hit with another documentation request.
DVLA say they would like a document to confirm the year of the bike as the VIN plate may not be enough on the off-chance it has been tampered with (it was a private buy so no dealer receipt) and if i cannot produce this "back-up evidence" then i may have to register it as a Q plate.
i do have copies of the QLD transport dept paperwork which has the year on it (2006) but am now being told that they dont count as it was me who had to give them that info in the first place.
any/all offers of assistance, sources of knowledge or silent prayers would be greatly appreciated.
year of manufacture evidence? according to the DVLA it isn't!
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I still love those pipes! have you got brackets further down supporting them or are they just held in place via the bolts in the cylinder? ive been looking at the V&H short shots but bit pricey at close to £400
only bolted on at the heads and connected with a small bracket around the back just after they run together. because of the size of them there was no need to hold them to the bike at the tail-end.
$200 (less than 140 of your sterling quid) and you could probably have them shipped for a further 50. mind you, we did chop the exhaust joints off the stock pipes which is a foolproof way of making sure a set of custom pipes will fit back onto the heads.
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Very smart mate, i do like this. Never been too keen on that front light tho, is it any good?
i know what you mean there. the longer i've had it the less impressed with it i am. main reason i've kept it though is that i havent seen another one on the road over here.
despite the size of it, it does give a very good beam. far brighter & further than the stock headlight.
normal light is one side, main beam the other or if you have normal beam on and press the main-beam trigger, both come on at the same time and will illuminate everything in front of you for a fair distance.
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V-Star Custom & Classic Forks
in Yamaha Workshop
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howdy folks,
does anyone know if you can fit the fork covers/shrouds from a vstar classic onto the forks of a vstar custom without have to change actual forks & trees, etc?
Grave