Today I embarked on the next phase to sort out an issue I mentioned in one of my older posts. You'll all remember how you took the piss out of me mercilessly, after I sneakily bought my magnificent Harley Sportster so I'd have a bike to ride around Canberra, without telling my missus.
I had Cliff sneak it up to Canberra for me, which "only" cost me a tad over 600 bucks, then I discovered that the dopey fcuking dealer here in Melbourne had cancelled the Victorian rego without consulting me, so then I tried to register it in Canberra and that was a wasted effort, so I need to get it back here and register it in my home state.
Rather than waste any more dough on freighting it back to the dealer, I decided to buy a bike trailer. The trouble is, bike trailers are mostly useless to me, as I'd only use one once in a blue moon, so for the rest of the time I'll be sitting in the weather, getting in my way. I've always wanted to build a folding trailer, but being the lazy fcuker I am, this was never going to happen.
I saw some "Easy Trailers" (folding trailers) on eBay starting at 799 bucks, but the one I wanted was around $1200. I figured that if they've been around for awhile, somebody must be selling one, and sure enough, a bloke in Frankston had one for sale for $750, or "make an offer". I offered him 650, and he took it. I drove over to Franger-ston today, and picked it up.
The seller, John, is a real nice bloke, he's a biker so he's human, and we had a good yack while he showed me how to fold and unfold it, and he chucked in same new rear wheel tie-downs that he bought from Aldi, but never got around to fitting. We did the money exchange, signed over the rego, and I towed the little feller home. While I'm still pissed off that my Sporty is sitting in a storage locker with only 2 km added to it's odometer in the month or so since I bought it, I'm happy that I'm getting closer to getting it on the road.
While I was at John's place, he offered me a very nice BMW R1100GS for a pretty good price, I told him I'd think about it....................