Fenster wrote:
I think you present an interesting alternative to risking your bike with the airlines. How do you ship your sci con case? Does FedEx slap a label on the outside of the case or does the entire case with bike go into another cardboard shipping box? When you are in a different city where do you go to ship your bike home? Do you schedule a pickup or find a hub somewhere? Would this work overseas as well?When I leave for a race, I take it to my local FedX office.....usually the Tuesday before and it has always arrived at the hotel on Thursday. There is a built in slot on the bike case handle for a shipping label where they zip tie it on. The case does not need to be put in a cardboard box.......and after doing this 9 times so far, the only marks on the case are slight tape residue I haven't bothered to clean off. When the race is over, I pack it up in my hotel room (takes about half hour) and take it to a local FedX office......there is always one less than 10 minutes away. I always stay at a Marriot and a couple of them have had FedX offices right at their location so I never left the hotel. I could probably schedule a pick-up but, again, there is always an office close by. I know one of the two vendors, I think "Shipbikes.com" offers a pick up service both ways for, I believe, an extra $4-5 charge (each way). As far as overseas goes, I have no experience yet.......but am going to London next month for the AG Worlds so need to check into it.