Shipping from the states?

[Mdbh]

Anyone on here ever shipped a complete bike? I'm told I can't as the box is too big? Also anyone on here do business in America? And have much stuff shipped like a container or somthing big I could chuck it in??

[CD17]

Yes I shipped my Big Daddy a few months ago, cost about £100 & those things are heavy 

[Mdbh]

Yeh but I'm told its hard to ship  from the states?

[dubber]

what about getting in touch with FREESTYLE MASTER?
read this, may be able to sort something out, seems a top bloke.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=157525.0

[GavinDavis]

Why dont you offer to buy the frame, forks, bars, cranks etc and just leave the wheels out.....would make it smaller for them to pack 

[kalex]

I thought it was shipping to Oz that caused problems with box size's as they have strict max dimensions.

Didn't know of any problems from USA to UK

[hotdog]

I had a 24" cruiser complete bike shipped from NY to the UK about 2 years ago,USPS express int'l signed for,for $190 tracked all the way.

[CD17]

Yeh but I'm told its hard to ship  from the states?

I had this.......



Shipped about 8 years ago & this



Maybe 6 years ago without any problems, I may have had some other complete's shipped but I can't remember

[GavinDavis]

Doesnt seem to be a problem then for a complete.  Maybe its the seller that really doesnt want to send it over the water? Or doesnt know how to take it apart lol

[pkripster]

There's size limits on box should be able to fit whole bike except wheels usually

[WINI]

As I said last night Olly, even colored tuffs wouldn't ship a complete to me because the price was ridiculous.  They had no probs with a F&F but said they had stopped shipping completes 

[Jaan]

I've had 6 or 7 completes sent in the past 12 months without any issues however they have all sent them in 2 boxes, the most I've ever spent is $110 in shipping.  The downside is you have to pay 2 handling fees at this end...

[kungfunky]

It's the yanks being lazy and not wanting to ship stuff over here, I've had around 20 completes shipped over and never had a problem.

[midschooljon]

As of Jan 1 this year the US post office has implemented a bunch of new shipping rates and standards. Last year I bought a few sets of bars from the US. Normally cost me about $18-$20 to get them posted to me priority. Just bought a set last week and was quoted $37!!! Nearly fell off my chair so got a quote myself and the cheapest I could find given the dimensions was $31.00.

Apparently FedEx is now cheaper then US postal if you are shipping things like F+F, completes etc so you may want to get them to quote.

[Mdbh]

what about getting in touch with FREESTYLE MASTER?
read this, may be able to sort something out, seems a top bloke.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=157525.0

He is my contact

[Mdbh]

All sorted!;)

[BADDH]

I ve done my homework on this .....I ve had too