Anyone shipped a bike to and from Germany?

[Skiwi]

I'm thinking it will be cheaper to ship my own bike to Germany for a month long tour of several of the EU countries.

I'm an absolute noob when it comes to overseas touring so anything I should pay special attention to?

[Gremlin]

Investigate insurance as I believe it's hard to sort when it isn't a local bike. 3rd party should be relatively easy, but full insurance could be close to impossible.

[-Rick-]

I'm thinking it will be cheaper to ship my own bike to Germany for a month long tour of several of the EU countries.

I'm an absolute noob when it comes to overseas touring so anything I should pay special attention to?

About driving EU: Allot of countries use tolroads, so a creditcard is handy. Also make sure u buy a vignet in Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Hungary. Which is a sticker allowing you to drive on the roads ;) Fines are pretty high in Switzerland and Austria, don't drive without it (and try not to speed :Police: ). In France you MUST have a reflecting jacket on & have an alcoholtester on you (no joke :facepalm:). What time are you coming? I'll try to find out all those rules for you, getting a ticket for not having something on you is a waste of money.

With insurance/importing a bike/getting it road legal I can't help you, from Holland myself. Although it's next to us, the rules are very different on bikes ;)

What are the plans? Alps I presume?