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Top advice is to use an aggregator to get the best price.

Price will vary hugely between shippers and on different days of the week, according to demand.

I shipped two bikes from San Diego to London 11 months ago. FedEx worked out cheapest at about $350. They arrived within 48 hours in perfect condition!

Pinarello Dogma, one of five built, owned by 2010 GB time trial champion, 56cm.

All proceeds to Sky Rainforest Rescue

Available for auction on Going Going Bike. Less than 60mins to go.

http://www.goinggoingbike.com/TeamSkyRainforestRescue/

These guys seem to know a thing or two about it:

http://www.goinggoingbike.com/auction/store/Parrs_-_Experts_in_Cycle_Parking

FYI - There is a Puch Mistral for sale here http://www.goinggoingbike.com/auction/offer/details/Puch__MISTRAL-235

Not sure when this dates from but understand that Puch Mistral Bikes were produced from 1977- 1986 (in Graz Austria) from 1987-1995 (in Italy from Bianci). All the frames and forks are made of steel. The higher quality Bikes with Reynolds 531 the mid and lower range with Puch 2500 steel. Not sure where this one fits in or whether it is a good deal at £180?

Thanks for you reply Andrew, is good to know you're here and contributing.
My general views once I opened the site for the 1st time were, as I mentioned above, not exactly of a buy/sell website but more of a kind networking/blogish sort of vibe.
Like you said, you're still on a beta stage atm, absorbing all the feedback, etc.... so there's probably more than enough time to develop/explore the best strategy.
Hope everything goes smooth for your business, don't be shy, share your thoughts here.

(I did register last night ; )

Thanks for registering and for your kind comments. Keep visiting the site and let me know how you think we are getting on!

"On our site, to make life a little harder for cycle crims, we encourage all you sellers to input your frame number (where will I find that?) and also upload a photo of it when you list your bike. We know it's a bit of a fiddle but it really makes a big difference. In return, your listing will proudly display the Proved It! icon, and everyone will know that you are doing your bit.

We also want to hear any suggestions you have for other things we can do to put a spanner in the thieves' works."

Surely if their priority was stopping thieves (rather than using stopping thieves as a marketing gimmmick) then they would make this compulsory?

Jeez - I've had two bikes nicked and various bits stolen from my bike (in fact my girlfriend had her seat post and saddle stolen yesterday) so we are committed to this.

At the moment we don't require frame numbers because not every bike has one, but it is something we have thought about requiring (and continue to think a lot about!). We also have other ideas to get us as close as possible to becoming a stolen bike free zone that we would like to do, but they take time/money etc which are in short supply for a start up.

Thanks for following us and any further comments welcome.

The space taken up by the count-down timer is way too much! And I suspect it's slowing down the site when a full page of timers is ticking away (on this computer). Ebay's system is, albeit not elegant, simple and effective.

Horatio - I think the timers may be slowing the site down (and in fact we had to move to faster servers to deal with this and increased traffic!)...i'll look at alternatives. Thanks.

Gregorio - glad you like the design and ownership stance.

Totally agree re. search functionality. It's not where it should/needs to be. Hope to have this sorted shortly.

Can we agree to disagree on the design side? I like it and the feedback has been generally excellent. Hopefully when the search improves the design issues you have will fall away.

Sorry you did not like the spoke card idea...I will have to look into it. The aim was for everyone to get some nice spoke cards which they would like to keep in their wheels. Didn't quite work out.

Finally (btw - thanks for all your comments!) totally agree about marketing at races/clubs. We're gonna be doing a lot more of that. If you see us, please introduce yourself.

Hi guys - glad you saw our poster and been able to look at our site. It's in beta at the moment, so a work in progress, but happy for feedback. Mr Smyth, thanks for your comments. Very nice of you.

I never liked buying cycling kit through ebay (not least because of the reputation for stolen stuff) and wanted a simple, bike focused place to buy and sell bikes and accessories. GGB aims to be that.

Wiganwill and nuknow, you sound like you know what you like/have strong views, and it would be great to hear them. DM me, or contact me through the general GGB email address and I will get back to you.

Have you ever seen a dog look so confused?!

YouTube- ‪The Talking Bike, Episode 1 - Making Friends‬‎

Our pleasure.

Did you get one of our t-shirts?

Went to the launch tonight. Nice bunch of people and decent turn out. Ta for the free beer!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/sets/72157624546777086/

Thanks Fox, glad you like the idea. Have you been over to look at the site?

cool - ff pls do PM me with your comments.

sounds / looks good - but why would someone sell their bike on this, rather than say getting 10x more auction views on ebay / gumtree?

thanks...glad you like the look of the site. ;o)

We've had a great reaction so far from cycle clubs, campaign groups and at BikeRadar Live and all those who have popped on to the site. We hope this continues and they will use our site instead of ebay/gumtree or other classifieds. Attitude and actions against bike crime, site usability, some nice search tools, cycling related content also seems popular.

Yup...we know that some bikes don't have frame numbers on them and they can be also sold on the site.

However, if you can tap in the frame details you will get "Prove It" status that we think many buyers will find reassuring. Buyers can then link through to the www.BikeRevolution.org to check whether it has been reported as stolen.

Thanks Bernhard. Do check us out and spread the word.

Hi - thanks for mentioning us.

You're right, Going Going Bike aims to be the legitimate marketplace for all things bike.

We don't want any thieves selling bikes on our site so do ask for frame numbers to be inserted and photos of frame numbers to be uploaded.

We're also partnering with a bike registry to encourage people to register their bikes (and check on the register that a bike is not stolen) and taking a hard line if we suspect a stolen bike is being listed on the site.

Having had two bikes stolen I want to do all I can to cut down on the marketability of stolen bikes. It would be good to have any thoughts/suggestions.