I suppose it started on Friday night. I put a vote on VZi on what I was going to do on Friday night and the winner was PS3, Pizza & Beer. I ordered a pizza to be delivered while I was driving home and I knew I had beers chilling in the fridge. When I got home I cracked open the beer and threw on the PS3. I must admit I only had a quick game before flipping on the TV. I only had 1 beer before flipping over to coke zero.
The reason for the change was that I wanted to leave early to collect my bike. I set my alarm to 8am and managed to be tucked up in bed to allow me plenty of sleepy-sleep-sleep. Excitement meant I was up at 6am and I was on the road at 7.30am. I dropped the seller a text to say I was on my way.
I had the guy’s address on Email and I knew he was in Taunton which would mean an trip down the M4 and then onto the M5. I was going to risk not checking the address until I got to Taunton because I fancied the excitement!
Seeing as the journey was going to be well over 2 hours I decided to download some more stuff onto my iPhone. Off came the AIOTM podcasts, off came the Adam’s Big Mix Tapes, and finally the episodes of Adam & Joe’s 6 Music podcasts. On went Richard Herring’s Warming Up audio Blogs, the Glasto A&J Specials and I thought I’d try something different and I downloaded 2 Desert Island Discs.
The journey down was pretty eventless. There was a bit of a jam just after I joined the M5 but after 30 minutes it went away. I did the journey without stopping and arrived at the Seller’s address around 11am. Luckily he had said that his campervan would be on the drive so it would make it easier to identify his address. I did need to use the Sat Nav and my iPhone 4 made it nice and easy to get to his.
When I arrived the moped was parked up out front and the seller was quick to greet me. We had a long chat about the bike and it really did look just like what I was after. He told me some basics such as the switch that turns it from a pedal bike to a scooter. He also explained that there was a choke. I’m quite glad that he did as I wouldn’t have known.
As I had told the seller I had friends in Taunton he thought I was going to be riding round their house and come back to collect the car. I told him that I was going to put it in the back of the Scenic and he was suprised but happy to help. We wheeled the scooter to the car, I put the back seats down and we tried to put the moped in fron wheel first but it was having none of it. We turned the bike round and backed it in. The bike fitted EXCEPT the handlebars were in the way of the rear window – bugger.
The seller suggested dropping the handlebars and quickly nipped inside to get his spanners and we were then able to drop the handlebars down. With the bike safely in the car we went inside his house to complete the paperwork. Here we had a complete collection of documents for the scooter. There was the mot (just done at the start of July so not needed until July 2012), there was the service manual, the owners handbook and the Haynes Manual. The seller also gave me a florescent jacket and also a CD full of photos from when the bike was stripped down and rebuilt.
All the Items I was given.
We finished with a chat about Ortha-K lenses and not wanting to have our eyes lasered before I jumped back in the car and made the journey back home.
Around about 2pm I got back to my house. I did stop on the way back at the service station because I wanted a Starbucks Vanilla Creme. They are lovely, but very expensive. I was going to go to Burger King and get the new Angus burger but there was a little bit of a queue so I didn’t get anything. The journey back had no real traffic jam so I only had to battle with getting the scooter out of the car and I parked it in the front of my house
- The Camino parked outside the front of my house.
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