Yada, yada, yada….. What's the sense in having your bike and not using it? …..You're regularly popping alternative views into threads, and I was merely doing the same.
He is using his bike, just in a different way to you.
We post up alternatives when the original plan (such as it is) is probably not viable (most usually within the time constraints available *) or when people have absolutely no idea how to to go from A to B to C and want to be told how to do it. The recent post and subsequent thread where a bod wanted to ride from north Wales to the ring, to the Black Forest and back to north Wales (stopping to see things along the way, with time spent in the Black Forest itself) all in six days, is a classic example.
The fellow says that he doesn’t necessarily want to ride his bike from Scotland to Spain, which is absolutely fine and (to a degree at least) understandable, the time taken maybe being better employed doing something else in his world. Others don’t want to ride from Yorkshire and Lancashire to Folkestone or Dover. Others besides want to put their vehicle onto a train between Germany and Italy. Others, still, to take a ferry from Portsmouth to Santander, rather than trundling across France and the Pyrenees.
Can you help him with any news as to whether, post-Brexit, the concept of shipping a bike from A to B and back is realistically possible? If so, how and by whom?
If it transpires that the service has been withdrawn, is too expensive, the paperwork too dull, the times don’t match or the only haulier operates from Penzance, Dublin or Istanbul, then he may indeed have to rethink his holiday and look for alternatives. Then your preferred method of riding everywhere, irrespective of possible alternatives, will definitely come into play. You may even be able to give him routes based on similar journeys you’ve made yourself, which would be great and no doubt well received…….or he’ll stay in the Highlands….. or he’ll buy a fly-me package holiday to Vietnam, his week off work not giving sufficient time to ride there and back.
* It often takes quite a bit of teeth pulling to find this one simple piece of information out