Transporting a whole mess of bikes
10-06-10, 08:18 AM
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Transporting a whole mess of bikes
So, I got a phone call yesterday from somebody that I've been picking road bikes up from. She said that she had just picked up 20+ road bikes, and that I'm free to take them if I wish. So... the question is- how big a truck am I going to need to make this in one trip? Does anybody have experience with moving a whole shop around like this? Any tips and tricks?
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10-06-10, 08:48 AM
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I can't answer your question about the truck, but a community BS I used to volunteer at always turned the stems 90 degrees and removed the pedals to maximize storage and minimize tangling when stacking bikes side by side.
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It depends on the distance between the pick up and the destination. If its short distance, then several trips with a van would be fine. Getting a truck (renting) is like what the Orange County Wheelmen do when they transport 900 bikes on their annual Amtrak Century.
If you go to their site, there's a contact list of people who know how to move bikes. https://www.ocw.org/Amtrak/default.aspx
If you go to their site, there's a contact list of people who know how to move bikes. https://www.ocw.org/Amtrak/default.aspx
10-07-10, 04:56 AM
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I can haul 10 bikes in a pick-up truck, with 10 more in a 4'x8' utility trailer. If you have access to a pick-up, but no trailer, rent one from U-Haul.
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How good are the bikes?
If I'm hauling 20 $5,000 bikes I'm going to need more loading time and a bigger truck than if I'm hauling 20 $50.00 bikes.
If I'm hauling 20 $5,000 bikes I'm going to need more loading time and a bigger truck than if I'm hauling 20 $50.00 bikes.
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I could probably get all of them in a single trip with a full sized long bed pickup...
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I would use a pick up truck and a trailer......also depends what distance are you traveling.
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If it were me, and the distance was, say, 50 miles or less, I'd make two trips or enlist another pickup owner to help.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. At the end of the day, I had a friend who was moving across town and rented a u-haul for the day anyway, so I grabbed that and made the run. In the future, I might just grab a pickup and trailer though.
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So, what are you planning to do with the bikes?
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If you have a long bed pick up that you don't love too much, you can hang them off the sides like we do for rental bikes down here. Check out the rates for a 16" rental box truck too. I've loaded 40-odd bikes in one of those easily. I'm assuming unboxed and assembled bikes too.
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