i need to pick up a motorcycle from new york, i'm in houston, is there a cheap way to do it?

Answer 1

There are a couple of options:

-If it is street-legal AND you are an experienced rider, fly up and ride it back. You'd need to get a copy of the title and insurance so you could get Texas temp tags before you go pick the bike up (need tags to ride it home).

-Rent/borrow a pickup truck and trailer, drive up and back. Watch the kind of rental you get; some charge by the mile and that's going to be very expensive.

-If you're in the Panhandle, fly to New York, buy an Amtrak car-train ticket for the return trip. Load the bike into the car-train and ride to northern Florida, then drive the bike the rest of the way. Same issue with tags and experience still applies.

-Get a shipping company. DAS, Forward Air are some examples. There are a lot of them. You can get "roll on, roll off" service (also called RORO) which means the shipper goes to the starting location, rolls the bike into a truck and secures it, then ships it direct to your house where they roll it back off. Or you can get "transfer" service (several names for this service) which means someone in NY has to take the bike to the nearest shipping depot (often near major airports and rail stations), pack it in a crate or pallet; the shipper loads and ships the bike to the transfer station in Texas where you unpack it and bring it home.

Of all of these... flying to New York and riding back will probably be the cheapest but it requires the most effort on your part. If you're just buying the bike now and it's used, this might not be the way to go as it's a very long ride and a lot of things can go wrong with an unfamiliar bike.

I'd personally use the RORO service. It's more expensive than transfer service but you do not have to pay for the crating or crating materials/pallet, you don't have to figure out how to get it to the transfer station and you don't have to worry about how to get it home.

I just had a bike shipped RORO by JCMotors, from Milwaukee to DC for about $650. Go to any search engine, look for "motorcycle transport" and do some comparison shopping!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

i shipped a motorcycle from new york to tennesee cost about 375, federal allied lines

Answer 4

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Answer 5

there is part of me that says drive up there rent a u haul and trailer it back, but there is the other part of me that would fly up there and ride back
the ride back side would win
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