Bikes on Greyhound?

I've been wondering about something. I'm contemplating a long ride,
my first, which would entail riding a Greyhound bus about three hundred
miles, then debarking and riding 400 miles home. Anyone here ever done
a stunt like this? What kind of rigamrole would I have to go through to
take along a bike and a Nomad trailer as my luggage?


TIA,
Bill


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Subject: Bikes on Greyhound?


I didn't even know that Greyhound operated in Switzerland...


I've been wondering about something. I'm contemplating a long ride,
my first, which would entail riding a Greyhound bus about three hundred
miles, then debarking and riding 400 miles home. Anyone here ever done
a stunt like this? What kind of rigamrole would I have to go through to
take along a bike and a Nomad trailer as my luggage?


http://lmgtfy.com/?q=greyhound+bicycle

http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/in...p/t-76573.html


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I've been wondering about something. I'm contemplating a long ride,
my first, which would entail riding a Greyhound bus about three hundred
miles, then debarking and riding 400 miles home. Anyone here ever done
a stunt like this? What kind of rigamrole would I have to go through to
take along a bike and a Nomad trailer as my luggage?

I planned a couple such rides but the scheduling and
switching of buses to get where I wanted to go and the
times of final arrival were so unattractive I opted to
rent a car instead.

I've done two car rental trips for 400-500 mile rides
and it has worked out very well.

Also attempted to make such trips via train but the
logistics were even more unattractive or outright
impossible.

I'd recommend a car rental unless the place you want
to get to is fairly direct by bus.


SMH

I looked into this last year for a similar tour.

Greyhound required the bike's handlebars and pedals be removed *and* it be
boxed up. The local station *may* have boxes, but don't count on it. Same
thing with the panniers or trailer: if it's not something 'normal' like a
suitcase or duffel bag it has to be boxed up, according to the dimensions
on their site.

IFIC the cost was a little over $125 per person with a $50 fee per bike.
So we were looking at $175 for a 300-mile bus ride per person. We thought
about the idea of paying someone a $100 or so to drive us the 300 miles
and save some money.

We ended up ditching that tour idea and going with something different,
but if the boxing up isn't an issue I suppose the hassle is only when
you're getting on the bus

- joel

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:22:17 -0600, wrote:

I've been wondering about something. I'm contemplating a long ride,
my first, which would entail riding a Greyhound bus about three hundred
miles, then debarking and riding 400 miles home. Anyone here ever done
a stunt like this? What kind of rigamrole would I have to go through to
take along a bike and a Nomad trailer as my luggage?


TIA,
Bill


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