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Summary: Shipping a bicycle by plane while flying requires breaking down the bike's pedals, front wheel and seat post, and wrapping each part safely. Buy a bike box at your local bike shop to ship the bike as flat as possible with tips from a bicycle specialist in this free video on flying with a bike.
Travis Martin is manager of the Mad Dog Cycles in Provo, Utah. Mad Dog Cycles has been in business more than 12 years, and Martin has been in the bicycle business for more than 20....read more
"Hi, I'm Travis at Mad Dog Cycles, here in Provo, Utah, and we're talking about how to ship a bike via the airline. Now, if you're flying, you definitely want and you want to take your bike with you, you definitely want to get packed up. Go to your local bike shop, grab a bike box, all the necessary materials to pack the bike. Like you see here, we have the wheel strapped to the frame, the pedals off, the handlebar is off, seat post off, a small box for your parts. Take the bike, put it in the box, seal it up, and you're ready to go. Now, you probably want to talk with your call your local airline company and who you're flying with, to see what requirements are, what the charges are, to fly your bike anywhere. We had a guy, went to France, it was three hundred dollars, you know, this was October of two thousand eight. Three hundred dollars is to fly his bike with him to France. And so you want to talk with your travel agent, your airline company, and see how much it's going to cost you."
eHow Article: How to Ship a Bicycle by Plane