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I would only use zone NE from personal recco.duration. I've seen & heard some scare stories about the way some have been transported & damaged in the process.

Best bet is speak to a bike shop or two either where you are, or in Exeter (such as SP) and see who they use. They won't use people.they can't trust .......

Be wary of using recovery firms to move bikes unless its the AA. All the others use sub-contractors. I had to get a bike recovered a while ago through a dealer. They had an account with the RAC who sent a subbie. It was a Romanian guy in a hi-top transit towing a tiny unsprung bike trailer barely big enough for a trial bike. It had no tail gate or light board, the bike would have been sticking out the back and the driver couldn't see the trailer in his mirrors. In even the lightest shunt the bike would have taken the lot and if it did make it unscathed it would have got plastered in motorway filth as it was pouring with rain. I refused to load it and sent him away and the dealer had to send their own van
I'd go with a private hauler. Andy900's bloke sounds worth a try.
If you hire a van you'll likely get hit with extra mileage charges. With the fuel on top and the time and hassle its easier and probably no dearer to let a professional do it. And if they damage it, they're insured.

I've sent you the details of the guy Harrison used to post his bike down.
Super long sprinter
Chocks and tie Downs for each bike
Maximum of 5 Bikes in the Van
Does deliveries for bike shops in Torbay area
Only charged £60 to transport from bristol to Teignmouth

I really can highly recommend the guy I used.

What's actually wrong with the bike?

It will need fixing sooner than later, why not get a local (to where the bike is) bike shop to fix it, go up again & have the fun in riding it back as originally planned?

By having it at a bike shop also gets it out from where I guess it's outstayed it's welcome.


I also can't see why recovery is a problem, you were starting a journey home & the bike developed an unexpected fault - it's not as if you are asking them tocollect something that's been laid up for years?

graham22 wrote:What's actually wrong with the bike?

Radiator got damage... I discovered high engine temperature. Kept eye on it for next 20 minutes of my journey.. Fan didn't manage to cool it down really as the temperature pretty much stayed around 98-107 degrees, so I have decided to stop my trip and get back to my friends house to get it checked. On a way back temperature kinda drop down but not a lot (97)and when I was approaching my friends street smoke start coming out (coolant started dripping on the pipes). I didn't know that back then but thought I was on fire So at that point most of the coolant leaked/pissed out covering the street and my bike/back tyre as I drift into my friends driveway

While I was letting my bike to cool it down I started crying. Then I cried a little bit more, after that I took the bodykit off, fill up radiator with water and tears then started engine to see where is the problem and it started pouring from the side walls of the radiator. And it's how I know radiator is out of this game.

graham22 wrote: It will need fixing sooner than later, why not get a local (to where the bike is) bike shop to fix it, go up again & have the fun in riding it back as originally planned?

I moved to Exeter last week and I come back to pick up the bike and ride it home next day Sunday. I called few garages and all of them quote me £550-675 just for radiator! Not mentioning that they were busy so no chance to get my bike in that day. I couldn't leave my bike at any garage and I needed to get back home Sunday no matter what. So had no choice but to leave the bike at my friends garage and taking train back.

I was doing this little (300 miles one way)bike trip every two weeks or so in last months [Lytham to Exeter to Lytham]. No it's not fun riding on a motorway 5-6 hours in cold or/and rain So I wasn't particularly looking forward to do that BUT same time I was very excited and happy as that supposed to be my last trip like this...hmmm!

graham22 wrote:
I also can't see why recovery is a problem, you were starting a journey home & the bike developed an unexpected fault - it's not as if you are asking them to collect something that's been laid up for years?

I didn't call them because :
1.I was only getting bike ready for the journey next morning...
2. I didn't know it was so serious.
3.I manage to get safely back to my friends house as I was staying there for one night and thought it would be a quick fix....see point 2.



I might come across as stupid but I did really think through and had few ideas but on top of everything time was not on my side and I had to make painful decision on leaving my bike behind


I will get my bike picked up from my friends house and delivered to me within couple of weeks [working away till 2nd May].Then I will try to find a radiator and a slave to change it for me


Till then I will remain heartbroken

Fair enough SuperK. Shame the bike's not local to you or you local to it.

Sounds like one of those 'several options to fix' scenario - take rad off, is it the core/joint, repair or replace, new or 2nd hand

Once you get the bike home, do try some radiator repair places, some will some won't repair bike rads, had a CR500 one which was truly mangled repaired yet a national rad company tried repairing a FZR1000 rad with Araldite Glue!! - that's another story in itself.

Take your point about the M5/M6 drag, used to do it a couple times a year to go the Heysham for the TT and Kirby Lonsdale for the Barbon Hill Climb.

Sorry I can't help further.

I know. Now I need to just bring my bike home and get it checked by someone that knows something as it might be just a quick fix but I am definitely not that someone to know it by just looking at it or to fix it myself

...Devil's Bridge in Kirby hmmm just one of many my favourite little twisties around

I am sorry too

Only ever stopped at Devils Bridge in the car towing a bike on the trailer.

What bike is it by the way, is it your CBR600 orsomething you used previously?

Yes, the CBR600

Look at the list of CBR 600s these are breaking:

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That's just one breaker pulled up at random. There's probably one locally.
There are squillions of CBR600s around and there'll be stacks of rads available in breakers for a fraction of the price you've been quoted. I'm sure someone will help you change it. Its a simple job. Don't despair.

Gimlet wrote:Look at the list of CBR 600s these are breaking:

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That's just one breaker pulled up at random. There's probably one locally.
There are squillions of CBR600s around and there'll be stacks of rads available in breakers for a fraction of the price you've been quoted. I'm sure someone will help you change it. Its a simple job. Don't despair.

Fantastic! Thanks for that will have a look ....squillions

Don't buy a new radiator, there are plenty of other options open to you; breakers, google and find an alternative (I think that Chappers found a reasonably priced alternative when he had a 600RR as a track bike), or if it's possible to repair, this can be achieved using Araldite if you clean the affected area thoroughly first and dry it (a hairdryer will do the job, I did it over a gas ring) and dob plenty of goop over the damaged area. Liquid metal will probably do as good a job.
I punctured the radiator on my WR250 in Spain in 2011 after running out of talent and into a big rock - following a strip down by the lights of the rental car that evening it was repaired with Araldite and back on the bike the following morning and hasn't leaked a drop since.
Following repair or replacement of said rad, it's wise to protect it against further damage - don't spend £50+ on a fancy rad guard, you can make a perfectly good one out of a sheet of 6mm (or ¼") mesh that is easily bought from a hardware or diy store, cut to size, trim off the sharp bits or fold them over, and cable tie or lock wire into place on the rad. There's a guy called Superdan on the Superduke forum who makes really tidy rad guards that are well finished (with a trim strip around them) for a very good price - I have two of them fitted to my SDs. Let me know if you'd like me to track down his details, I'm sure that he'll do one for the RR.

Thank You and I wasn't planning on buying new one. Now main thing is to get my bike back home and then I [someone else not me] will have a look and will go from there. I am not worry