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Offline timangus

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Shipping to New Zealand
« on: October 12, 2018, 00:02:12 »
Used a company called Schumacher Cargo to move my motorcycle from USA to New Zealand. A word of warning! Make sure any shipper gives you a date for departure that is real and what they will do in the way of compensation if they don’t. We dropped our DL650 off in Long Beach on 2nd September and it did not sail until 23rd, arriving late in NZ on 9th October. We have had to pay to stay in NZ doing nothing much until the bike arrives. Very frustrating, as we had planned to ride the bike around the world - not wait for it to catch up.

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Re: Shipping to New Zealand
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2018, 13:59:33 »
Good tip, cheers :thumb:  I suppose it's a chance to kick around the area, get to know a country better? Looks like you two are hitting the road just in time for summer in NZ as well. Good planning!  I'd love to get back there....ah well, someday eh?
Do you have one of those blog/vlog-things going, Tim?
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Offline UK_Vstrom650

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Re: Shipping to New Zealand
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2018, 15:29:44 »
I'd be interested to hear how you're getting on too  :thumb:

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Re: Shipping to New Zealand
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2018, 11:32:26 »
Currently in Christchurch having survived the ride over a gorge that almost had me blown over with the high winds. Updating pics etc to Instagram as timangus3.