Hello
One day sitting in Cyprus was scrolling Latvijan online advertisements for the bikes, and saw her:
Just one photo, declared millage 43k km.
Called seller, he told the story that bike was bought in Spain somewhen 15 years ago, moved to Latvija, made local registration and.... locked in garage for these 15 years.
My friend colleague was going to Christmass holidays over there (his hometown), so he had a brief look at the bike and purchased on my behalf, moved to another storage.
Then we found who can make shipment.
So carrier picked up the bike from storage location, moved to workshop to create a box, and then loaded into container.
Since bike was abandoned for 15 years, no tests were done at purchase. The only was known that windshield is broken, one mirror fell off, scratches here and there...
So from Riga it moved to Klaipeda, then through Rotterdam to Antwerpen, where it stuck for about a week while waiting proper taxi.
Finally, vessel with strange name SEAGO ISTANBUL loaded container onboard on 26 of January and departed to destination.
The journey has started.
The imagination painted all sorts of horror pictures of
what could happen to a container ship in the Bay of Biscay during the icy winter season ...
... as a motorcycle emerges somewhere on a foreign mainland...
or even disappear in the depths of the sea to the
joy of PoseidonBut the brave vessel gloriously overcame the dangers of the Atlantic Ocean, waiting for him on every wave, and prepared to enter the calmer Mediterranean Sea. Just to pass that traffic...
Finally port of destination appeared on the map.