Hi all,
Hoping someone knows the answer to this.
Currently, Mountain Bike frames are flown across the Atlantic, and delivered to the UK by the hundreds.
They're sent to buyers in the UK from distribution companies and retailers in the 10's of thousands.
Half of those are full suspension mountain bike frames. They come with rear shocks (dampers) installed to the frame.
To the best of my knowledge these are not treated as restricted or prohibited goods, otherwise considerably less people in the UK would own a full suspension mountain bike (this is a huge online market).
Therefore, does anyone know how these are sent? A proportion of these are sent Parcelforce I presume.
But I note that late last year individuals (not retailers or distributors) were having rear suspension shocks impounded by the Royal Mail as to the best of my knowledge they all contain at least an element of compressed gas of some form in them (even the ones that are not air based dampers still contain small internal parts with nitrogen in them). People were sending them to servicing companies in the UK and having them sold off.
I get the restricted/prohibited list thing. What I don't get is how they are successfully flown around the world and delivered in the UK despite that, yet individuals cannot send them.
The main reason for this post is that I personally want to send a mountain bike frame, inside the UK, complete with it's shock. I've de-pressurised the main air chamber, but it will almost certainly have a small internal damper of compressed nitrogen - they all do. Is there are mechanism for declaring this and therefore sending them 'declared' or something?
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Re: Mountain Bike frames
At the Post Office, we are obliged to refuse all items with compressed gas in them, under pain of having our licence revoked! So normal access to both Royal Mail and Parcelforce will be denied to you.
I would speak directly to as many carriers as possible and see if they can transport compressed gas canisters. I suspect that there is at least one carrier out there that doesn't use planes at all and is therefore exempt from the Dangerous Goods act. Don't know who though.
I would speak directly to as many carriers as possible and see if they can transport compressed gas canisters. I suspect that there is at least one carrier out there that doesn't use planes at all and is therefore exempt from the Dangerous Goods act. Don't know who though.