Abandoned airhead in Italy , anyone's ?

[giacomo]

This is kind of a long shot, but this has been abandoned at a nearby airport here in north-east Italy for over a year now:

Could it belong to someone on here?

A quick look tells me that it's dual plugged, has a homemade pannier rack, vented final drive etc etc, clearly the owner cared for his bike and knew his stuff, that's why it's weird that it was just left there.

It's got a sticker on it from a bike dealer in southampton, I'm going to give them a call tomorrow morning to see if they can help.

The bad news is that the bi-annual car park cleanup is due at the end of next month, that means the bike will be scrapped unless someone shows up before then. The airport authorities never bother to try to contact the owners of vehicles registered abroad.

I'm not really interested in getting hold of another airhead (already got one bleeding my wallet dry as it is), but if I manage to contact the owner I could easily work out a safe place to keep it, or whatever, according to his plans

Thanks for any news

Antonio

PS, no idea how it works in the UK if I want to find the details of a vehicle's owner, here it just involves a 2 euro phone call, but I know that you people have all kinds of strange privacy rules and regulations. Is there any way I can get info off the DVLA, if the bike isn't actually on my own property?

 

[(RIP) Proff]

Can you post the registration numbers please ???
Will help us trace the owner..

EDIT, is that near Dobbia ???

 

[(RIP) Mark H]

Shame, looks like with a bit of TLC (and a new battery) it could be ridden home, seems a pity to scrap it, the reg number will help as proff said

Wonder what the story is, if its an English reg maybe the owner had a major problem (Engine/Box/Clutch) managed to get to an airport and flew home

 

[david a hall]

Okay I recon that he was enjoying a winter break in Italy when next door text him to say the pipes had burst in the attic. Knowing the journey back on the bike would take to long he hurriedly flew back intending to collect the bike later, and has since forgotten he ever owned it.

 

[Roberto]

Shame, looks like with a bit of TLC (and a new battery) it could be ridden home, seems a pity to scrap it, the reg number will help as proff said

Wonder what the story is, if its an English reg maybe the owner had a major problem (Engine/Box/Clutch) managed to get to an airport and flew home

Agreed, pity to waste it.

That's odd though.. it's been locked up.. so that would indicate someone would have had the intention of coming back to get it. Otherwise why bother..

 

[Mr K]

Agreed, pity to waste it.

That's odd though.. it's been locked up.. so that would indicate someone would have had the intention of coming back to get it. Otherwise why bother..

Who knows Rob?

Health/Arrest/VAT/Death/illness may have overcome the owner....

What would that be worth on the market?

 

[Roberto]

Who knows Rob?
Health/Arrest/VAT/Death/illness may have overcome the owner....
What would that be worth on the market?

Very true. Just seems sad to see it there like that. Something terribly unfinished with it just being abandoned in a car park at an airport.

Also looks like summink stashed behind side panels in yellow placcy??

There you go.. now some intrigue.. what could it be, eh?

 

[(RIP) Mark H]

Mr K "Also looks like summink stashed behind side panels in yellow placcy??"

That's the battery, or its where the battery should be !

 

[Mr K]

Very true. Just seems sad to see it there like that. Something terribly unfinished with it just being abandoned in a car park at an airport.



There you go.. now some intrigue.. what could it be, eh?

Mr K "Also looks like summink stashed behind side panels in yellow placcy??"

That's the battery, or its where the battery should be !

Ssssh! It's Crack. Just negotiating a wholesaler..

 

[Roberto]

That's the battery, or its where the battery should be !

Now you've gone and spoilt it

 

[giacomo]

Can you post the registration numbers please ???
Will help us trace the owner..

EDIT, is that near Dobbia ???

Oh wow...how the hell can you know where Dobbia is...? it's something like 2 houses in the middle of the fields where we used to have crazy parties back in the day..! Dobbia is about a mile away from my house,yes .

reg number is : XXX XXXX
And the yellow thing is what first called my attention, it's just some kind of plastic sheet thing around the battery, no drugs around, not that I could find at least, although I hear that the commonly accepted stashing point on old airheads is underneath the centerstand bungs..

Anyway, quite right about it probably working ok, seems to be in pretty good nick, it's been parked under a roof and might just need a push to get started again, I think the owner might have run out of cash, got arrested, whatever, and then decided it was more worthwhile to fly back home rather than ride.

Don't think RTs are worth much down here, but I'd just hate to see a perfectly good airhead going to scrap.

 

[Smiler400]

If there is a UK tax disc, it will have the place where it was taxed. If it was taxed near the owners address it may narrow the search down!

I`ll bet Sherlock Holmes is sh!tting himself

 

[(RIP) Proff]

I get around,

It's gettable, just costing ferry and diesel to Dobbia and back.....

Showing on askmid as insured ..
BMW R80rt thumb2

 

[Taff]

... this has been abandoned at a nearby airport here in north-east Italy for over a year now ..

... Showing ... as insured ..

So it's been insured after being left at the airport. How strange.

I find it hard to believe it's been abandoned; as Roberto says if you're going to abandon anything, why secure it with a heavy duty padlock and chain? And surely if you were going to abandon it, you'd flog off the panniers first wouldn't you?

 

[giacomo]

The tax disc expires on the 30th of march, says "westminster" on the stamp, I'll check again tomorrow.

Turns out that as far as Italy is concerned it's abandoned scrap metal, I made a claim with the police today, sometime this week I'll know if the airport authorities (as the owners of the properties) are planning on making any claim on the bike themselves. Otherwise in about a month it'll be in the local scrapyard...

I work in Treviso airport, it's been there since last July at least.

 

[(RIP) Mark H]

Maybe the owner is flying in shortly for this years summer tour

 

[GlynnJ]

Hey, Giacomo, it's a long-shot, but do you know Francesco Mellisari? He lives quite close to you...

 

[Ogmios]

... I'd just hate to see a perfectly good airhead going to scrap.

I'd say there's a few of us following this thread for that very reason.
... Always makes me sad - it's like finding a lost animal;
you feel like you should give it a home.

 

[giacomo]

Hey, Giacomo, it's a long-shot, but do you know Francesco Mellisari? He lives quite close to you...

Nope...but if he rides an airhead then he might be worth meeting.

 

[giacomo]

I'd say there's a few of us following this thread for that very reason.
... Always makes me sad - it's like finding a lost animal;
you feel like you should give it a home.

My feelings entirely, seems like it served someone faithfully for a long time, and that someone took care of his bike. I'll keep you all informed, for now I'm going to do my best to move it somewhere safe within the airport building, while I keep trying to contact the owner.