• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

shipping a bike across country

Darkside

Darkside

Husqvarna
AA Class
I was thinking of bidding on a bike on ebay. Anybody have experience with shipping a bike across country? Besides cost, I was wondering about possible damage and whatnot.
 
Forward Air everytime

Darkside,

I've shipped 3 bikes in the past year using Forward Air and I can't say enough how good they are. They use steel containers you roll the bike into and tie it down and then you lock it up, done. Alright, its almost that easy. I highly suggest them. It was $500ish from Columbus, Ohio to Albuquerque. Let me know if you have any questions.

Loren
 
Last winter, I shipped a Harley Road King from Forked River New Jersey to Thousand Oaks, CA - from the sellers driveway to my driveway, used www.Haulbikes.com, it cost about $500 including insurance ($50 deductible) bike had 70 miles on it, so basically new, arrived without a scratch. Bikes are transported in an enclosed trailer. From placing the order to delivery took about 2 and 1/2 weeks. Most of their drivers are bike riders.
Mike
 
There's www.Uship.com It's a 3PL style website. (Third party logistics). You post up what, when, and where you want something shipped and you'll get all sorts of quotes. I havent used it but I certainly would try it. I have set up a few posts when I had a bike or two lined up but the deals fell through before I got a chance to use them.

I did get a bike off ebay once. I had the guy break it down and put everything into as small a crate as possible. It ended up being like 4' x 4' x3' ISH... I shipped it through my work's FEDEX account and it was just under $300 from GA to UT. retail cost couldnt be more than $400 though, so dont be afraid to explore that option.

Alsooo.. You could try delta cargo. If you can empty/dry out all the fluids, then you might be able to pass the sniffers.. It ranges anywhere from around $0.60 to $1.00 per pound for most of the Continental US flights.. Other Air cargo companies may work too. The one downside is that it must be dropped off at an air cargo terminal and picked up at the other airport. This is NO door to door delivery, but it is cheaper in some cases
 
I've shipped 3 bike across the country. I've used Day & Ross each time with great success. Around $200 each time. Only thing is you need it created before pick up and some how to load/unload it (like a forklift) once it reaches its destination.
 
HuskyDude said:
I've shipped 3 bike across the country. I've used Day & Ross each time with great success. Around $200 each time. Only thing is you need it created before pick up and some how to load/unload it (like a forklift) once it reaches its destination.
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Wow that is CHEEEAAAAAPP!! I know where Im going next time I need to ship a bike!
 
rancher1 said:
That is in Canada, it will not work in the US.
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Check their web page
Day & Ross is recognized as one of Canada’s only National carriers serving all 10 provinces with LTL and TL service anywhere in Canada, and to and from the United States through a strategic alliance with our exclusive U.S. marketing partner. We also offer scheduled TL operations to and from Mexico.
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sounds like i got hosed. i had a bike shipped from mich to calif, on a skid, insured quite well, 600 and change .. and that was few years back. nobody on the other end is usually interested in breaking it down and crating for you. add the cost of the crate, labor for the crate and bingo. i tend to think it sort of come out in the wash. now a new bike still in the crate would be sweet. it would be ready to go......
 
I've been asking several places and 600 is not too bad from the feedback I have gotten... 400 - 825 is the range I have gotten for WY to WA ... But you consider I shipped a bike on a ship from Seattle to the other side of the globe for ~700 and it does seem high ... Only 650 for that trip now ...

Bike shops normally have crates to give away ... Just a flimsy, 4 sided hinged plywood shell that sits on a sturdy pallet ... remove the front wheel and bars and strap it down is all that takes ...
 
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