Getting that "new" bike home?

[jwalker]

Ok so you've taken the MSF course, got your license and are now ready to buy that bike. You find the one you want either brand new or used. My question is how do you get it home so you can start to practice? If you should start by practicing in parking/vacant lots you still need to get it home to get it over to the lot. Do you A)have a friend ride it to your house? B) Put it in a trailer? C) Chance it on the freeway or back roads and hope you have learned enough to not crash on the way home?or D) ask the salesman/owner to ride it to your house?

[NCRonB]

The previous owner was more than happy to ride it to my house. My second choice would've been a friend. No way I would've ridden it myself.

[Sev]

I got my friend to lead and I followed.... through rush hour... downtown... in the rain.

[Kal]

The correct answer is A) B) or D) however...

I followed a friend the first 20miles out of town before she turned back and did the remaining 40 odd miles on my tod. It was fantastic, exhilerating and contained altogether too many near death experiences in one sitting to be entirely safe.

[Mustang]

I went from a buell at the safety course to my Harley. With the encouragement of my friend I rode my new bike around the dealers practice lot to get used to turning the larger bike, gears etc and then took her for a spin around the quiet industrial park cirlce road.

But riding it home in rush hour traffic.....my buddy did that for me. Too many bad drivers in South Florida! My first official ride in traffic was a quiet evening ride along the coast.

[Gadjet]

Mine got carried home in the back of my dad's pickup truck.

Of course, I didn't have my full license yet, nor did I have the bike registered or insured. that got done the next day, and I then proceeded to take short rides around the neighborhood with my dad to get used to it. Then I started riding to and from work (10 miles each way on the highway, plus some city traffic), following or leading my dad.

After two weeks of that, I took my road test and got my license.

That first trip home was the only time my bike didn't move somewhere under it's own power.

[CNF2002]

Drove it for the first time 70 miles on the freeway in the rain to home.

[Hammersfan]

I have my licence but haven't ridden a bike for years, so a buddy is picking it up for me. I don't want to drop a brand new bike the minute I get it out of the show room ! He will take it to a quite place : and then I can get on and practise.

[storysunfolding]

I get to push my new two bikes home!

J/k I get to work on one of my new ones in the garage of the guy who gave it to me.

I only have to push the second one home. A man can push three miles when they want $40 to rent you a trailer!

[-Curly-]

After stalling it twice at the dealers, The dealer told me to practice on the road behind thier shop. There was a Church about a block away, and I drove around thier parking lot for about 10 minutes, then my Wife followed me home in her car. Pulling out on a 4 lane road for the first time is kind of nerve racking.