Posting a bike?

graham.

Hi All.
I'm in the process of seling a bike , and I'm getting a number of inquireries which would involve me arranging for delivery.
Does anyone have any advice on this?
Courrier recomendations, do they supply "Bike Boxes" and so on.
Any advise very gratefully received.
Graham.

warpcow

Go to a bike shop. They're generally happy to get rid of bike boxes for free.

Then try:

http://www.parcel2go.com/

or

http://www.parcelmonkey.co.uk/

for couriers. There's not much 'arranging' to it once you've packed: courier picks up at arranged time --> courier delivers.

nation

Go to a bike shop and get one of the boxes they're throwing out, take the wheels off, pedals off, drop the saddle as far as it'll go or just take the seatpost out, slacken the stem bolts and turn the bars, put bike in box.

One thing to be careful of is that you prop up the rear end of the frame such that the rear derailleur isn't getting mashed against the bottom of the box. New bikes usually come with spacers in the dropouts to keep the fork ends and/or the rear triangle from getting squished together. They're throwaway plastic thingies so I'm sure any shop willing to give you a box will let you have a couple of those as well.

benno68

Also try

https://www.interparcel.com/

One word of warning - whichever courier you choose, read the small print as there maybe a surcharge for the "oversize" shipment.

graham.

Thanks for the pointers chaps.
"Go to a bike shop and ask for a spare box." Why the hell did'nt I think of that?!
Graham.

bobs bikes

i use a company called paisley freight.
they are on the net. google them.

costs are around the £21 mark for uk deliveries and they are fully insured to carry bikes, i have never had a problem with them.

any bike shop will give you a box and some padding for the bike. if the box is big enough, leave the rear wheel on the bike, it will save messing around later.

nigglenoo

http://www.senditnow.com/index.epl

They are just an online booking set-up for Parcelforce, good prices and insurance options but beware of parcel size restrictions: you might need to trim a standard bike box slightly.

EKE_38BPM

Just use a regular sized box and fold the bike up so that it fits.

























Maybe not the best advice I've ever offered!

nigglenoo

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Just use a regular sized box and fold the bike up so that it fits.

Should work..... for a Brompton

graham.

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Just use a regular sized box and fold the bike up so that it fits.

























Maybe not the best advice I've ever offered!

Maybe not the best advice that youv'e ever offerd. But I'm grateful for it anyway.
I gave your suggestion a go last night. It's a carbon fibre frame, and I found that by playing one of those hot air paint stripper things over the top and down tubes, I managed to get it to fold beautifully.

Thanks for the tip. Graham.

Pep

I posted an old bike from Japan to UK. Got the box from the shop. Everything worked well.