Traveling to race - question about bikes & car rental

[tripinky]

Thanks for all the great feedback. We were aware of Southwest's extremely reasonable (and they fly direct from DC) fees for bikes, and that's how most of us were planning on going. Thanks for the suggestion about renting a moving van/truck. That's much cheaper than renting a huge SUV/conversion van from the car rental companies!

[txred9876]

Thanks for all the great feedback. We were aware of Southwest's extremely reasonable (and they fly direct from DC) fees for bikes, and that's how most of us were planning on going. Thanks for the suggestion about renting a moving van/truck. That's much cheaper than renting a huge SUV/conversion van from the car rental companies!

Are you coming for the livestrong challenge? There is also a race on oct 10th called the mamma jamma ride against breast cancer.

I will be doing at least the mamma jamma ride on oct 1oth.

Tina

[OakLeaf]

I've shipped my bike three times via FedEx and it's worked swimmingly.

FedEx Home Delivery is very inexpensive; if you don't have someone's home you can have the bikes sent to, even the regular express service is cheaper than taking it on a plane. Plus you don't have to schlep the box around the airport along with the rest of your luggage - a major plus. If you're staying in hotels, receiving shipments for arriving guests is SOP, just let the front desk know ahead of time.

You should be able to rent a full-sized van pretty inexpensively from a truck rental place, which will give you more passenger space than a box truck, plus being easier to tie your assembled bikes down inside.