Shipping a bike

[MaximX]

Wondering if any of you have bought a used bike and had it shipped to you.  There is one in Ontairo I may be interested in, weighs about 500lb.   Any ideas on how to do it and what it may cost?

Mike

[stevecrout]

there are a number of ways to get the bike to your door. You can go to a site called "uship" and put in the details of the bike and companies will bid on th eprice for shipping.  Be aware that you should check their references and business license before committing and they need to understand it is door to door roll on, roll off.  Quotes from Ontario run around $700 - 800.  Can be a good way to go if you're careful.

https://help.uship.com/hc/en-us

Another way is to contact your friendly rail company although they are considerably higher.

Or you can always contact a few bike clubs in that area and ask if anyone is willing to bring it for you if you are willing to pay a fair price and if they are already coming your way.

Also contact VanWay frieght in Prince George and tell them you are a company "MaximX Classic Bikes" maybe?  and ask them to give you a quote to haul it out.

Finally - grab a small trailer and head over there and make a week of it.

Those would be my thoughts.

[oldduc]

Do not use the railway. One car would take weeks maybe months to get here. They do not care about one single railway car. If you had a 100 cars per day they may care. Plus one car would get "free switched" at different locations ( Winnipeg, Edmonton) to get on the right train, dont know what "free switch" is. They pull cars out of one track and build the trains by letting the cars roll into different tracks depending on where the cars are going then gather all the cars in the correct order and put into one long track. Not a gentle on the cars as the slam to a stop....ask Russ he see it everyday   

[MaximX]

Thanks for the tips.  I already borrowed a friend's trailer and made a holiday of going to Edmonton overnight.  Had two prospects, the first was junk and the second seller all of a sudden told me it was sold after I got him to tell me what his lowest price would be.  It was a nice trip, but not that interested in doing something like it again soon, (going somewhere & coming back with nothing) haha.  Will have a look at that one site if I figure I can trust someone to give an accurate appraisal and buy without actually seeing it.....just some things I am looking at that are far away.