Bike Transportation

[Vitesse39]

We're moving up north to Dundee, so I'm using Headstock Transport to get the bike up there.

I'll let you know how it all goes - £265 from High Wycombe to Dundee, Proper van decked out for the purpose etc

[Adetuono]

Couldn't you have got it in with the rest of your furniture & belongings? A mate of mine had the removers shift 5 of his bikes. They just included them with the rest of the house.

[julianb]

Man that sounds expensive. I shipped my CBR600 from Lincolnshire to Oxford in a tranny van with a bunch of tie downs, and a builders plank. Several pairs of hands at either end were neccessary to avoid any embarrasment!!!

It cost me £45 for the van and about the same in diesel.

[jvaughan]

when I have my frame aligment checked, I hired a Merc Sprinter Van (My bike is an Africa Twin, so very tall). cost me £35 for the van, and about £40 for fuel.

My neighbour races bikes. he is a builder by trade, and has an old transit van. he uses 2 scaffolding planks to get his gsxr1000 and his mates R1 into the back for track days. A few tiedown straps and his toolbox and he's good to go.

£200 plus sounds a tad expensive ...

Ill do it for £200 ( hire a trailer and tow the bike up with my car for ya )

[Vitesse39]

Hmm, considered all the above but I'd heard nasty stories of removal companies not getting it right and bikes being found on thier sides at destination.
Much the same with putting a bike in the back of an ordinary transit etc.

Oh well at least there should be no fear of it being damaged, even if it is pricey.

[Andy OH]

I had to move two bikes when I moved house, literally 1 mile away and the removal firm wanted me to drain the petrol tanks on both bikes as otherwise it would have invalidated their insurance........in the end just rode them one at a time.