I am planning to ride my DL650 from Finland to either Greece or west/southwest parts of Turkey in May 2014. Due to time constraints, I want to ship my bike back home, and fly back myself, at the end of May. Depending on where I can find the best solution, this shipping could originate from Greece, or western Turkey, or even Bulgaria. End destination would ideally be Helsinki, Finland, but other cities in Finland would be fine as well (or I could also think of picking up the bike in Stockholm, Sweden, or Tallinn, Estonia).

There are some readymade services by truck available these days, and I´m sure they offer good service, but they want too much money, like 700 euros one-way, and I´m just simply not gonna pay anywhere near that money for transport in Europe. At this point, I´m prepared to pay about 200-300 euros total for one-way transport, but could be, that I´m wrong, and I cannot get it at that price, so will end up paying a bit more (but still not 700)! Will be interesting to see, how much I´m gonna have to pay.

The best option for me would probably be to find a company, that operates a truck line between Finland and eastern Mediterranean, and be able to agree with them to put the bike into the truck. I´ve tried to locate such a company from here, but no luck so far. Plenty of lines going to more western parts of Europe, though.

The price thing rules out airfreight. I won´t be in a hurry to receive the bike after the trip, so basically I could also consider seafreight, I just think that a truck would be a much more simple solution for this purpose, if I can find a suitable operator. I could also arrange crating the bike, but would rather avoid that, if I can.

So, anybody ever sent a bike by truck (or by sea) from eastern parts of the Mediterranean to Scandinavia..?