I bought a S4R from a dealer in Loveland Co. I live in Lubbock Texas. I can't afford to go get it. Any recommendations on who to ship through? Money is a definite factor.

Yellow- Quoted me 450, and they are very fast and flexible. But they won't ship it strapped to a pallet, and they won't crate it themselves.   So I have to get it crated, and the dealer said they would charge like 180.00 for that.

so any advice/recommendations are welcome.

I used HaulBikes, & they were incredible!
They only ship bikes, nothing else, and you don't have to crate or anything.
Dunno about the price though.
Loveland to Lubbock doesn't sound far... You can't go get it?

Take a greyhound there and ride it back, should cost less than 200.

Yea, if it is all travelling within one state I would go for it myself.  I on the other hand didn't have that luxury.  I just shipped a bike that I bought from Michigan to my home here in Hawaii.  I used Allied Freight Lines for the mainland portion and they seemed to do a good job.  They picked the bike up, strapped it down to a skid and took it from there.  They even threw in eight thousand in insurance for the bike (fifteen if you are an AMA member) so it would be well protected no its way to me. 

WOAH are you kidding... a ride down from northern colorado to texas. dude, totally go get it and ride it back.


584 mi â€" about 9 hours 35 mins

yea, come on.  what better way to get to know a brand new bike than to drive it 600 miles.  might wanna pick up a gel seat while your at the dealer

Yeah I know it sounds wonderful,  a ride through Colorado.   BUT... it's more complicated then that.  Two Jobs, and Grad school.  It would be a month before I even have the free time to go get it.   There are other complications as well... would be my longest ride, no rain gear, no storage... etc.

Plus I want to get to know the bike and break it in slowly.  I've been riding a Harley for years so this is a change for me.  A change I'm excited about, but want to take slowly.  Thought about it hard though. 

I'm probably a little too cautious. 

Buy me a flight; I will come ride the bike up to you. 

Click, pay the dealer the $180 clams and have them ship it. Done Deal...  I had my new S2R shipped from PA to N. California on a pallet wrapped in plastic wrap and had absolutely no problems ............... except they busted out the headlight, dented the trim ring, and the entire bike was covered in some sort of greasy dust as well as having a few old shipping blankets draiped over it on exposed parts of the bike. 
I took pictures of the bike with the shipping guys next to it and made them sign the manifest that they broke the light in transit. I was really calm about the whole thing with them so it wasn't hard to get them to do this for me.

Point of the story is..... don't take chances to save $180 on crating and then have your first experience of Ducati ownership be tarnished and lose it's excitement.  Believe me, it was a shock and major letdown when it happened to me.
You can save that money by not going out to eat for a month or so or cut back on some other non essentials. You'll soon realize that your bike will become an ESSENTIAL item to spend on anyway.

Quote from: supakpow2 on August 28, 2008, 12:27:54 AM
Click, pay the dealer the $180 clams and have them ship it. Done Deal...  I had my new S2R shipped from PA to N. California on a pallet wrapped in plastic wrap and had absolutely no problems ............... except they busted out the headlight, dented the trim ring, and the entire bike was covered in some sort of greasy dust as well as having a few old shipping blankets draiped over it on exposed parts of the bike. 
I took pictures of the bike with the shipping guys next to it and made them sign the manifest that they broke the light in transit. I was really calm about the whole thing with them so it wasn't hard to get them to do this for me.

Point of the story is..... don't take chances to save $180 on crating and then have your first experience of Ducati ownership be tarnished and lose it's excitement.  Believe me, it was a shock and major letdown when it happened to me.
You can save that money by not going out to eat for a month or so or cut back on some other non essentials. You'll soon realize that your bike will become an ESSENTIAL item to spend on anyway.

its $180 clams to crate it, $480 to ship it. its ALOT of dough.

if you didnt want to cough up that kinda money to ship it (and you know your gonna be spending atleat 400-500 to ship it) then you shouldnt have bought it. Who needs rain gear its 9 hours. Thats a sunday. get an AM bus ticket like 1am, or midnight, be there by 10am, shop opens pick up, youll be kinda sore, but atleats not sleepy, ride the sumpregnant dog back.

I bought my Foggy in San Fran a few months ago and had it shipped to Denver. The company was fantastic, the bike arrived in perfect condition, and it was right at $600 bucks.

It did take a little longer than I originally expected. But the company made the ordeal painless, so it was worth it to me and much cheaper than renting a U-Haul one way (which was like $900 bucks without gas). And, my shipping route was 1/2 way across country. Yours wouldn't be as far. 

While en-route, they have a tracking page on their site, so you can see where the bike is on it's journey.

The charge quite a bit extra to crate the bike (which I didn't do). But they put it on a pallet made just for motorcycles, and take great care of it en-route.

It is a company that EBay motors recommends for shipping bikes purchased on EBay.

Here is a link to the website:
http://www.motorcycleshippers.com/

I think they will still give you a quote on-line without you having to give any personal information or get  a phone call. Just need the starting and ending zip code.

Try www.uship.com  - You post what you want shipped, then independent shippers bid and you go with whichever bid is best/lowest or whatever...  I used it and made out great to get my KTM up from California to Wa. state.

A Harley to an S4R?

BE CAREFUL!

have a buddy with a truck?

get up early saturday morning drive up drive back with it on the truck.. you pay for gas and his food

Quote from: scooby on August 28, 2008, 06:49:32 AM
Try www.uship.com  - You post what you want shipped, then independent shippers bid and you go with whichever bid is best/lowest or whatever...  I used it and made out great to get my KTM up from California to Wa. state.

+1

Had a bike shipped from Virginia to Ohio for 180$