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Going over for a year (Sydney) and would like to have my road bike over there...
I don't need it until November time for don't need an express service...
Anyone know what the cheapest way to send a bike box is? weight probably around 10kg.
Cheers,
Andy
I used to be back and fore a bit to Oz, and every time I looked at shipping a bike over it was cheaper just to pick one up there and sell it when leaving.
I just used to take my favourite saddle, pedals, and bars with me.
Done 6...
http://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk/
These guys as brokers for the big freight companies.
Via Air freight you are looking at 7 days door to door. You need to complete customs decs for it and have an address to ship to. You pay volumetric weight so the standard bike box (may need a slight trim) gets you about 32kg. Means you can ship some extra stuff out for the same price. At about 250/box last time it was much cheaper than buying a new bike and if you are here for a year probably worth it.
Usual stuff about cleaning it properly etc.
try anglopacific i would imagine australia is 6 weeks by sea. should be cheap
Take it on the plane, depends on airline. BA very good price wise 55£ for first extra bag(which can be a bike) 120£ for second extra bag.
Clean bike very well and put new tires on(especially on a mtb) as they can be quite anal on cleaning same for New Zealand
Most airlines give a free 10kg sports luggage so that's the cheapest option. When I flew over in Feb with Qatar airlines I had 25kg in my bag 15kg in my bike box free of change. Or just buy one there like epicyclo said. They are cheaper in oz.
Bike counts as luggage on Emirates - 30kg per economy class.
Not many do these daysMost airlines give a free 10kg sports luggage so that's the cheapest option.
A well packed bike will be hard to do under 15kg...
Not sure on things being cheaper here, the main difference is 10 vs 20% VAT/GST we suffer with currency fluctuations a bit more here too.
When I came for 7 months we sea freighted a bunch of stuff so we had more options on what to do. It will get fairly expensive over the year if you only start with one case...
Other top tip..
Bring 1 of these
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then wire a local plug onto it if you have any specific chargers etc.
Aeroflot only charge 50USD per extra bag.
@mikewsmith, the power plug was the best idea ever. I have my 4 adapter Aussie one here. It has saved me 😀