Anybody ever shipped one across the big pond.
I've shipped mine back and forth from Canada to Europe so often the thing now has Frequent Flyer status with Air Canada. In fact, I eventually got fed up with shipping it and now have two STs - one in Europe and one in Canada.
Air Canada runs a sale every summer on motorcycle shipments - costs about $1,000 CDN ($750 US, £600) to ship a bike one way, if you travel as a passenger on the same flight. The process is pretty simple, just make sure the moto is extremely clean (no bugs anywhere, no dirt under the fenders, this to keep the agricultural inspectors happy), show up at the airport cargo shed with 1/4 of a tank of gas or less, fill out a few forms, and that's about it.
The bike is put into a ULD (Uniform Load Device) container and then placed in the lower deck of a wide-body aircraft (A330, B747 through 787 inclusive, etc.)
It's considerably less expensive to ship in and out of Paris or Frankfurt than to ship in and out of London Thiefrow airport, this because of the charges that the UK government and the Thiefrow airport operator impose. It's fractionally less expensive to ship out of Montreal than out of Toronto, simply because Montreal is closer to Europe, but the price difference between the two cities is not significant.
Moto in Container
