Remember Amtrak Express as an alternative. Amtrak will transport your
fully assembled bike in one of their extra-large boxes from/to any of
their stations with baggage service for roughly $68. All that is
required is turning the bars and removing pedals. I just shipped my
Atlantis from Albany Oregon to St. Louis MO this afternoon - a simple
process. Parking at the train station is easy and free, the baggage
people courteous and your bike is less likely to suffer damage than
when on the airlines or UPS (I have horror stories of the latter if
anyone is interested). Amtrak delivery takes a few days - figure 6
max coast to coast. Storage is free for the first two days after
arrival at your destination and then $2 per day. Napa? There are a
number of pleasant back road routes from the Sacramento-Davis area to
the wine country and back and the local bike clubs have maps available
online. Davis has long been considered a one of the nation's most
bike-friendly communities and has a bikes-welcome Amtrak station.
Once the bike is where you want to be, travel is much simplified. How
about sending the bikes to Davis, then flying directly to Sacramento?
The Capital Corridor train (with your bike if you choose) can easily
take you to Berkeley and as far south as San Jose on 12 trains per
day. This is bicycle country. Enjoy.
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Rich Mitchell
On Aug 19, 5:17 pm, Don <donl...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I am not new to biking but I am new to touring. I've got the bike/s
> (Sam Hillborne, Myata 610) and most of the basics. I also have a
> handle on touring within my state (Florida). But I need some help with
> planning some tours in other parts of the USA and overseas. I have
> some (probably dumb) questions about how one transports their bike to
> other distant locations and how one get a good guide for some of these
> tours. For example, after Easter I will have a week and my wife and I
> want to head to Northern California and do some touring that would
> take in the wine country and surrounding area. I don't really want to
> book a guided tour with rented bikes etc. Now maybe to start that is
> absolutely the best way to go. But all of the ones I have seen are
> very pricey and extremely structured to the group. Being new to this
> group I just figured I would lay it out there and see what information
> I might be able to gather. I am sure that there are various websites
> or other resources I could be directed to. I am not sure if this is OK
> but I will give you my email address so that if any want to send me
> stuff they can. Thanks in advance for any help you might give.
> Cheers,
> Don
> donl...@bellsouth.net
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