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Posted Date: 14th February 2022
bike shifting by train or bike shifting by road

Bikes are an important part of everyday life of the youth across the country. Riding bikes can reduce your stress levels and your reflexes will improve. It's good physical exercise that will keep you healthy. Once you have used your bike for sometime, your comfort levels in riding the bike will increase. Most bike owners will prefer to take their bikes with them when they move to a new city. When you start thinking of how to move your bike, the distance to the destination will be an important factor to consider. If the distance is small, as is the case for local moves, you can move your bike yourself, by driving it to the destination. In case of longer distances you will need professional help, which comes in the form of bike shifting services. 

The different options available for shifting your bike

These service providers will assist you through their door to door facility. There are a number of modes of transport including roadways, railways, airways and seaways. Roads and rails are used in case of moving in cities within the country. Moving your bike via air can be expensive and seaways come into play in case of international moves. So, for inter city moves, Which is better bike shifting by train or bike shifting by road? The shifting services will be able to arrange bike moves on both of these modes and often they will make this decision for you.

 

How will the professional service providers come to your aid?

In case you want to use railways to move your bike, you can use professional help or book spaces on the trains yourself. In case you hire the services for bike shifting by train, they will provide a door to door facility, collecting your bike from your address, taking it to the railway station, loading it onto the containers and ensuring that it's loaded and tied up properly. They will collect it at the railway station at the destination city and deliver the bike to the destination address, again with the use of a transport vehicle.

How can you manage bike shifting via trains yourself? 

In case you want to do this yourself, you will have to book spaces on these trains, on the basis of availability of space in them around the dates you want this shifting to take place. You will have to take your bike to the railway station yourself and arrange its loading onto the train and someone at the destination will need to collect it from the train. Also this facility will only be available when there is a railway station in your vicinity and if they offer bike shifting services. You can check online if your local railways offer this facility. 

How will your bike be shifted via roadways?

You always have the other option open to you at all timers, bike shifting via roadways. This facility is provided by the bike transport services, who will arrange a transport vehicle, whether a containerized truck or a hydraulic trailer. Again door to door facility will be provided and the only person who will come in physical contact after hiring is the driver. They are responsible for loading, driving and unloading. 

So, which one of the two options - railways or roadways will you select?

  • Moving your bike by train will only be possible, if the option is available at your nearby railway station.
  • In case of shifting your bike via a train, you will not be able to pack your bike before it moves. 
  • In case of trains, you will not be able to move your bike separately, it will always be moved as part of a group.
  • Though moving your bike via trains is cheaper than moving them via roads.
  • Shifting via trains is safer as there is a lower chance of any human error.

If you want to hire services for bike shifting by train or bike shifting by road, online, you may try MoveMyCar. It is fast and free.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amit Bhatt

Amit Bhatt is a well travelled author with experience in managing a number of businesses. He has worked for e-commerce start-ups, custom house agents and an agricultural magazine. He has travelled to Australia, Ireland, Nigeria, Libya to name a few countries he has been to. He loves reading historical literature and plays cricket when he has fre ....read more

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