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Shipped my Z125 to England

9.1K views 18 replies 10 participants last post by  christopherwatkins  
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Well the crate left San Pedro bound for Southampton, UK. I bought and rode it in the North Bay, CA for a year. I have moved back to Jolly Old, and decided to take her with me. I sold her big bother, unfortunately. I'm excited, that they don't sell them here? I'm sure it will get lot's of attention. When it arrives, I'll take lot's of photos in London, Silverstone etc. I have found lot's of cool info. on this site, but hadn't had anything new to contribute, until now. Keep it up!



Mods include, wider Michelins, EBC HH front pads, smaller LED blinkers with the relay, homemade tail tidy, gold chain, Wolo air horn...saved my bacon several times!
 

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Update: just after I posted this message, I got an unexpected solution. Well, at least I think so. One of my friends told me that I can order from auto transport services he used to ship his car from Germany. The only problem is - I don't know if there won't be any issues with that. Because he shipped a car and I want to ship a bike. And there was other direction in his case. I want to compare prices and conditions if you have an shipment option for me too. And so, if you will contact me, it would be perfect.
 
#11 ·
Nobody is going to steal a bike that unique. Being the only Z125 in the country, nobody can ride it without getting noticed, and parted out, the parts have no value in the country individually.

That said, you may have difficulty insuring it in the UK.

But I have to say, it's going to be have having the only one around. Can't wait for you to document your ownership stories in the UK..
 
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The crate is 1650 lbs! It's full of fire damaged tools mostly. It was $1200 + $200 insurance. I'm sure the huge license bracket, will be necessary. I hope they don't care about the LED blinkers? If they do, I'll need to get a set. My original parts were destroyed, along with the house, motorcycles and cars in the Tubbs fire. Another reason, to keep her. The Kawasaki was among the few things in my new steel shop, which was mostly untouched. All the concrete driveway/porch was still un-cured, so I hadn't moved the heavy items in yet. The previous shop burned the year before with more bikes in it. It may rain a lot here, but no wild fires.
You can see the shop a week after the fire. The other photo is of my ZX14R in the foreground(rusty gas tank) and my Speed Triple on a brand new K&L lift. There's a CJ7, and a Triumph scrambler there too. Approx. $50K worth of brand new plasma table cutting equipment, tig, mig, EMAX whisper compressor, drill press, tool boxes, tools etc. All of it 3 days from being moved into the shop. None of it insured! Arghh!
 

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