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Shipping a Sidecar Rig to Europe

FlyingMonkeys · 2024-07-02T21:42:40Z

I suppose I need to start a new thread, to chronicle all the things that go into shipping a Sidecar Rig to Europe, including the prep work involved in getting a sidecar rig to the finalized point of "completion", and the steps taken to actually ship the sidecar rig. It should be noted that I am not the first, nor the last person to ship a sidecar rig to Europe, as I know of others that came before me, and my hope is that by posting some of this information here, it might entice others to do the same. This thread is going to be a multi-month long thread, as the actually shipment of the sidecar rig to Europe will take place next February, when I deliver the completed sidecar rig to a location in Tucson, AZ, and it gets containerized there, then shipped to Orlando, Fl, where it meets up with other motorcycles, they all have a containerized party, then they board a ship, and sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Antwerp, Belgium, where our shipping host, Stefan Knopf meets the containers, escorts all the containers through customs, has the containers delivered to his business location very near Heidelberg, Germany, where he unloads all the motorcycles and one lonely sidecar rig, and stores all of them inside his warehouse, awaiting for the intrepid travelers to arrive, and claim their iron steeds. The...Where Do I Begin....is always a quandary, because a lot of thinking and stop/start goes into the process, before decisions can be made. Most of you know I have the '19 Wing w/Hannigan Dream sidecar rig, named....the BattleWing Galactica. That rig stays in the USA. Allow me to introduce you to the rig that will be shipped to Europe, my newly acquired 2015 Wing w/Hannigan GTL sidecar, that was previously the showroom floor model for Hannigan.......here is....Euro - Wing

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FlyingMonkeys

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Home is the weary traveler.

I want to thank Steve Ives for being such a kind and generous host, and allowing me to befriend his new dog, Cy.

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Posted : January 12, 2026 9:09 pm

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Miles it was a pleasure. You as always are so helpful and considerate towards many on this forum =)

Just waiting on insurance, then off to the cop shop for a vin check then tags.

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Posted : January 12, 2026 9:43 pm

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Pretty cool to see how this all worked out. Glad the rig ended up in the capable hands and paws of Steve and Cyrus. 😎

Hold my keyboard and watch this! 🙃

Posted : January 13, 2026 8:30 am

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