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05-05-2015, 09:04 AM | #1 |
These must fit a Monster?
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AA Vans - Now Bike Friendly
So, after a rather annoying and minor incident yesterday in deepest darkest Wales on the Scrambler (Sitting down enjoying a break in the sun and she rolls off the side stand, school boy error of not getting the angle quite right on a slope *sigh*) I had to call the AA to come pick me up (Only damage, broken clutch lever).
Made it clear on the phone, as you do, that the bike isn't fixable and could they please ensure they send straight for a low loader as opposed to what happened to me in the past, waiting for two hours for a van only to then wait another two for the truck. Lo and behold a couple of hours later a van pulls up. Oh joy. Quick chat with the friendly bloke and turns out he's in one of the latest vans. Within is a fold out trailer for cars, but is also adapted to take most bikes (Massive heavy cruisers with big back tyres about the only exception). Takes a little faffing to fix the ramp on, but still much quicker then waiting for a truck. Apparently the AA almost didn't make the investment, but over the next year or so all new AA vans will have this fitted. Thought it worth sharing.
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05-05-2015, 09:47 AM | #2 |
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My dad will be happy, he's just getting to grips with a new to him, 1939 triumph t70 and working through it's quirks as he uses it.
Got to be better than just using a web of rachet straps on the back of a truck! |
05-05-2015, 10:42 AM | #3 |
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Yeah my scoot was picked up by one of these last week. Took the chap a while to remember how it all works. It's bit like a meccano set crossed with a jigsaw puzzle and a rubics cube but once solved works brilliantly.
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05-05-2015, 04:59 PM | #4 |
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I would have ridden it home.
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05-05-2015, 08:12 PM | #5 |
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[QUOTE=Mr Gazza;507948]I would have ridden it home...
One of those vans dropped a bike off at the store a few weeks ago, like Dirty said a cross between a meccano set and a jigsaw but that said very impressive... |
05-05-2015, 08:43 PM | #6 |
Its all grey now
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i would have carried it home
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05-05-2015, 08:50 PM | #7 |
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05-05-2015, 09:37 PM | #8 |
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[QUOTE=Mr Gazza;507984]Well you may well of tried but there is no prize for screwing a gear box up on a new bike for a lot of miles from wales to England especially if you have cover for breakdown.
Been there done that in the next town near to home on an Suzuki X5 but I had no money and no cover at 17. |
06-05-2015, 10:42 AM | #9 |
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05-05-2015, 06:57 PM | #10 |
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a significant improvement indeed, many yonks ago i had my bandit picked up by the AA, low loader an all.
he slipped getting it off at my house, dented tank and zaust, and i had to phone a bloody ambulance for chappy who done his leg in.. |
06-05-2015, 08:19 AM | #11 |
No more Monster...
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Glad you got home ok and that the AA have made the investment.
I've been on the back of a truck many times
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14-05-2015, 06:28 AM | #12 |
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I had reason to call out the AA yesterday (non Monster related!) and we were discussing this. As said its going to be on the new vans, while some are now in service it will still be a couple of years or more before they all have a bike friendly trailer, as the newer vans (today's newer) get phased out.
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14-05-2015, 02:41 PM | #13 |
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You forgot to mention that the gearchange was bent like a banana Jim, so you couldn't have ridden it home, clutchless or otherwise.
G ; ) |
14-05-2015, 03:07 PM | #14 |
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Aboot time.
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