Hello, nice to know we were recommended from Ducati.ms
I wonder if bike hire might be an option for you?
I looked at a few London based website shops but their hire rates were very high.
One reasonable one I found with a couple of Dukes:
http://www.superbikerental.co.uk/ and some very reasonable rates with fully loaded tour bikes but I believe Manchester based:
http://www.newhorizonsbikehire.co.uk/bikes.php Hope it works out for you - Good luck
Frank
ps - for something REALLY different, how about
:
http://www.classicbikehire.com/index.html