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Well, I was fortunate today. I bought my DR field mower from Bluff City Cycles. Looking for motorcycle shops in my area, this came up. Got my parts in, so I brought the bearings and the drive assembly in to see what he thought. He didn't have that many more tools than I had, but he was much more familiar with driving these out and installing new ones. Total cost...just under $33. I can start putting it back together this weekend.

It's under 600 lbs. Spring. FWIW, U-Hauls are rated for 55 MPH (per the manual). We've all seen them go faster than that.

We (two sons + me) have six beemers. Oldest is '84 which will fire up and run fine anytime. One has 160 thousand and just got a new clutch. All but one have over 100K, that one has 85K and is my long distance ride. I have had no major problems with any of them, nor with the blackbird. The Africa Twin I'm not so sure of.

It's not too large to ship, and USPS economy ground wouldn't even be very expensive. Finding a local XX owner who needs bags is probably one in a million. You can probably just pack all that inside the top box and put that in a large box, for under $40 to ship. I ship a lot of oversize stuff.