[SDCBC] Advice on shipping a bike?

[Jim Baross]

I paid a NYC bike shop $30 each to pack bikes for 
shipment back to San Diego. The shop, I could 
look up the name if you want, used cardboard bike 
boxes with cushioning and spacers for forks, etc. 
We included racks, bottles, fenders and some 
other eqpt with the bikes too. Through the bike 
shop's arrangement/account with a shipper, UPS, 
the bikes were shipped less expensively than if I 
had gone through UPS on my own and the bikes came 
through w/o any damage. The process was painless.


At 04:57 PM 10/27/2007, Norm Olson wrote:
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>Times have changed and prices have gotten more 
>expensive but I would just have the bike shop 
>ship the box UPS.  That used to be reasonably 
>inexpensive.  The last time I did this was 
>several years back and I knew the owners of the 
>shop and had spent a lot of money there over the 
>years.  They did quite a bit of shipping and was 
>able to get it sent out cheaper than the local 
>UPS store wanted to charge me.  Now you still 
>have to stay within the LWH dimensions.  Some 
>bikes are bigger than others.  Also, pay extra for the insurance.
>
>Norm
>
>From: sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org 
>[mailto:sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org] On Behalf Of Linda Briggs
>Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:30 PM
>To: sdcbc at bikesandiego.org
>Subject: [SDCBC] Advice on shipping a bike?
>
>
>Hi SDCBCers –
>
>My brother-in-law is visiting in November from 
>New York and flying in with his bike. He’s 
>nervous about the carbon fiber fork (the rest of 
>the bike is steel). He plans to have a local NY 
>bike shop pack the bike for him in a hard-sided 
>case, and I’m trying to convince him the fork should be just fine in that.
>
>Any advice from those who have flown bikes? 
>Would he be better off packing the fork in his 
>carry-on luggage (assuming he could get it through security)?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-- Linda B.
>
>
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