Comments on: Don’t Let The Airlines Cheat You: Fly Your Bike For Free http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/dont-let-the-airlines-cheat-you-fly-your-bicycle-for-free/ Bicycle Touring Pro Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Best Of Bicycle Touring Pro - Travel and Bike Touring Articles http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/dont-let-the-airlines-cheat-you-fly-your-bicycle-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-9254 The Best Of Bicycle Touring Pro - Travel and Bike Touring Articles Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:36:41 +0000 http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/?p=4430#comment-9254 [...] Don’t Let The Airlines Cheat You – Fly Your Bike For Free [...] [...] Don’t Let The Airlines Cheat You – Fly Your Bike For Free [...]

]]> By: Norm Michaels http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/dont-let-the-airlines-cheat-you-fly-your-bicycle-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-4089 Norm Michaels Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:16:28 +0000 http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/?p=4430#comment-4089 Darren, I think that's a great tip and very smart to be prepared and have a plan in place...Good on you! Martin, Some of us love our two wheeled steeds and made many modifications so they fit perfect. This makes renting even high quality bikes a pain in the butt (pardon the pun) on tours. This forces us to ship our personalized perfect fit bikes to location....Still, I think rentals are a great idea, our local chamber of commerce has okay Trek bike rentals for the 400 trail. Dave G., You can also ship via Greyhound Package in the USA and Greyhound courier in Canada...I find Greyhound rates to be MUCH less expensive than by Train, UPS, FedEx or the Airlines for shipping bikes. Once you understand the Greyhound system of shipping life becomes easier. Last year a few of us could only get away for a quick Four day weekend but we wanted to make the best of our time so we flew to Montana but shipped are bikes via Greayhound to Kalispell, MT then biked Glacier National park in Montana then head up to Banff National Park in AB, Canada. We could have rented bikes there but the cost of shipping was about the same for bike rental and they were not our bikes. Norm Darren,
I think that’s a great tip and very smart to be prepared and have a plan in place…Good on you!

Martin,
Some of us love our two wheeled steeds and made many modifications so they fit perfect. This makes renting even high quality bikes a pain in the butt (pardon the pun) on tours. This forces us to ship our personalized perfect fit bikes to location….Still, I think rentals are a great idea, our local chamber of commerce has okay Trek bike rentals for the 400 trail.

Dave G.,
You can also ship via Greyhound Package in the USA and Greyhound courier in Canada…I find Greyhound rates to be MUCH less expensive than by Train, UPS, FedEx or the Airlines for shipping bikes. Once you understand the Greyhound system of shipping life becomes easier.

Last year a few of us could only get away for a quick Four day weekend but we wanted to make the best of our time so we flew to Montana but shipped are bikes via Greayhound to Kalispell, MT then biked Glacier National park in Montana then head up to Banff National Park in AB, Canada. We could have rented bikes there but the cost of shipping was about the same for bike rental and they were not our bikes.

Norm

]]> By: Dave Turner http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/dont-let-the-airlines-cheat-you-fly-your-bicycle-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-4084 Dave Turner Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:43:39 +0000 http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/?p=4430#comment-4084 G'day Darren, Nice tip! I find most airlines outside of the US are pretty happy to take a bike for free, as long as it's in a bike box. What kills is the weight restriction. Nowadays I wear all my clothes to the airport and carry on board all my heavy kit except tools (sharp objects etc) as hand luggage! It doesn't matter if I weigh in at 120kg, but it matters if my bike does :o) Thanks for the tip, Dave G’day Darren,

Nice tip! I find most airlines outside of the US are pretty happy to take a bike for free, as long as it’s in a bike box. What kills is the weight restriction. Nowadays I wear all my clothes to the airport and carry on board all my heavy kit except tools (sharp objects etc) as hand luggage! It doesn’t matter if I weigh in at 120kg, but it matters if my bike does :o )

Thanks for the tip,

Dave

]]> By: Martin Thompson http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/dont-let-the-airlines-cheat-you-fly-your-bicycle-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-4070 Martin Thompson Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:46:50 +0000 http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/?p=4430#comment-4070 Hi Dave, Depending on where you're travelling, Cycling Rentals offers Bike rental and other services to cyclists, who would prefer to avoid the hassles you listed - such as lugging a flight case from your home to your trip departure point - and then get the flight case to your destination point... We will deliver a high quality Touring / Road / Mountain bike, ready to ride, straight to your departure point - all you have to do is drop the bike off at a pre-determined location and we handle the rest. We can also shuttle luggage and flight cases for the rider who can't leave his wheels at home. Look us up! Happy Riding, Martin KT Hi Dave,

Depending on where you’re travelling, Cycling Rentals offers Bike rental and other services to cyclists, who would prefer to avoid the hassles you listed – such as lugging a flight case from your home to your trip departure point – and then get the flight case to your destination point…

We will deliver a high quality Touring / Road / Mountain bike, ready to ride, straight to your departure point – all you have to do is drop the bike off at a pre-determined location and we handle the rest.

We can also shuttle luggage and flight cases for the rider who can’t leave his wheels at home. Look us up!

Happy Riding,

Martin KT

]]> By: Dave Gieger http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/dont-let-the-airlines-cheat-you-fly-your-bicycle-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-4065 Dave Gieger Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:01:52 +0000 http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/?p=4430#comment-4065 I'm planning a tour this summer and need to fly to get to the starting location. Instead of bringing the bike on the plane, I was considering ground shipping it via UPS or FedEx to a bike shop near the airport in which I'm arriving. Benefits of this include not having to lug a heavy box through the airports, avoiding airline fees, less likelihood of damage, and you can use the tools and expertise from the bike shop to re-assemble your bike. Depending on where you're going, it may be a better option than flying with a bike. I think it's worth looking into. I’m planning a tour this summer and need to fly to get to the starting location. Instead of bringing the bike on the plane, I was considering ground shipping it via UPS or FedEx to a bike shop near the airport in which I’m arriving. Benefits of this include not having to lug a heavy box through the airports, avoiding airline fees, less likelihood of damage, and you can use the tools and expertise from the bike shop to re-assemble your bike. Depending on where you’re going, it may be a better option than flying with a bike. I think it’s worth looking into.

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