What is the best and cheapest way to ship a complete Bike

[fuzzynod]

What is the best and cheapest way to ship a complete Bike from the USA. any idea on cost.
Has anybody had bad experiences?
Thanks
  

[sam hudson]

The ripper i just bought from usa cost $145 (USPS) + $6 ins.
It needs to be stripped down (wheels,bars,seat off etc).Then you squash it all in a box!!!

However,if the seller wont do that for you,then you'll have to get the carrier to do it for you and i think that bumped the price up to about £190($300ish).I was quoted that price by fed ex...i think .

[cookem]

Has anybody had bad experiences?

Yep, bought a chrome TA off ebay in America. Was posted using normal US Postal Service. I never got it. Was gutted. There was no insurance either. Took me 6 months to claim 75% of my money back through ebay claims.

[sam hudson]

 
That SUCKS  I was lucky.The bike was here in just over a week.Evil customs took the insured value as the value of the bike though and charged me a lovely £80 import duty  Oh trying to claim that back.

[danny silverstreak]

bought a turbo lite rom the us, think it was about 60 dollars or so to ship, arrived with handlebars off etc..., quite impressed, i would make a right cock of trying to post a bike

[TwoBobRob]

I bought all my Hoffman stuff from a shop in Texas - they loose packed it into a box and shipped it via UPS.  I spent about $700, they invoiced me $350 (the tax and duty is then calculated on that amount  )  and I had to pay £50ish to the delivery driver.  All in all a very straightforward and painless exercise. Would do it again.  Always pay by credit card as then you can claim form them should owt go wrong...

[CD17]

I got my 25th Master shipped standard, it cost about £60 i think, but it took about 9 weeks to get here, lucky I didn't get charged any tax on it  tho.
I always get stuff airmailed now, costs a bit more, but Iv heard so many stories of things never turning up on the standard shipping.

[spinmaster]

hmm i got a bike on its way from the US now. paid to have it shipped the cheapest way, (4-6 weeks) after hearing the horror stories about that i'm now a bit worried

[CD17]

hmm i got a bike on its way from the US now. paid to have it shipped the cheapest way, (4-6 weeks) after hearing the horror stories about that i'm now a bit worried

Mine did turn up, but I was getting a bit worried.