Well it's 1am as I type this, and I'm spewing. My cunning plan for buying the Harley Sportster and having Cliff bring it to Canberra for me has hit a major wall. No, Cliff did a sterling job and collected it, carefully tied it down, and it arrived in perfect shape. Thanks Cliff, you're a legend!
Sadly the weather had turned for the worse this afternoon, so it was pissing down rain and dark by the time he arrived at the hotel. No problem, instead of my "maiden voyage" ride to the storage facility, Cliff and I piled into his pickup truck and drove it there instead. When we got there, we unloaded it, I took it for a quick blat around the facility, took a pic, then locked it away.
Tonight, after we had a nice Indian meal at the restaurant next to the hotel and I bid Cliff goodnight, I looked at the pic, and realised that there was no number plate on it? WTF? On the eBay ad, it said that it's registered in Victoria until May next year!
I sent the bike shop owner an eBay message asking where my number plate is, and he replied that he couldn't transfer Victorian registration interstate, and thought I'd realise that? He went on to say that to transfer the rego, I'd need to have a Victorian address and license number?
I reminded him that someone from his shop had written my Victorian address on the paperwork they gave Cliff, and I gave him my Victorian drivers license number. I further explained that while I WORK in Canberra, I LIVE in Melbourne, and also (legally) drive a Victorian registered car, because I go home on weekends. I'm not a Canberre resident (living in motels) so I can't legally register it here in Canberra. Fcuk.
The fcuking idiot. Without asking me, he's removed the number plate and (probably, but I hope not) cancelled the remainder of the registration! I'm waiting on a response to the three messages that I've now sent him, I hope he can sort it out, if not, I've got a very expensive "project". Thank God I rented a secure storage facility to park it in, I can't legally park it in the hotel carpark, because it's not registered.............