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@Dammit
Well I had a look at train prices- £41.80 return, 7 hours travel time.
So that's out.
Then I had a look at Parcelforce, who quote £20.99 for a 15 kilo load- which I think is roughly what the bike weighs.
Last time I needed to ship a bike I just went to Evans and asked for a box- so would £25 sound unfair to anyone?
£20.99 to ship, plus £4.01 of duct tape etc is what I was thinking.
As has been pointed out it has ROD brakes (is it the convention to capitalise that?) so the chap who owns it might have a fun time turning the handle bars around- I'm willing to offer them a little more for the faff of working out how to disconnect the ROD brakes.
Obviously I will be sure to ask them to document in exhaustive detail how they managed the black art task of disconnecting them so that I might have a (probably vain) chance of reconnecting them afterward.