Bike Shifting in KR Puram
If you live in KR Puram the railway station is practically on your doorstep, and sooner or later someone suggests just sending the bike by train. It's a fair question. People do it, it works, and for some trips it's the cheaper option. It also comes with a few jobs that land on you rather than on anyone else.
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We'd rather you made that choice knowing both sides. So here's how the two compare from a KR Puram address, in plain terms, without pretending a door-to-door carrier is always the right answer.
What sending a bike by train actually involves
With a rail parcel, you take the bike to the station's parcel office yourself, it gets packed there or before you arrive, and the paperwork and charges are whatever the railway sets at the time. Then it travels station to station. At the other end someone has to go to the destination station, collect it and get it home, and if your new place is a long way from that station, that's another ride or another vehicle.
None of that is a reason to avoid it. For a rider who is going to the same city by train anyway, who doesn't mind a morning at the parcel counter, and whose destination is a short hop from a big station, it can make sense. The rules, the packing requirements and the price are the railway's, so check them with the parcel office before you plan around them.
Timing is the other thing to think about. A parcel goes on whichever train the railway puts it on, and arrival at the far station isn't something you control. If the bike has to be there for a joining date, ask the parcel office how they schedule it before you commit.
What it isn't is door to door. You're the one getting it to KR Puram station through the traffic at Tin Factory, and the one collecting it at the far end.
What a carrier changes
With us, the crew picks the bike up from wherever it's parked in KR Puram and takes pictures of it as it is. The mirrors and bars get padding, the body gets several turns of wrap, and on the vehicle it stands upright, strapped, with nothing leaning on it. It's handed over at your new address, and the photos are taken again so you can compare. You don't go near a parcel office.
You also get a delivery date that's committed before loading and one price in writing, GST included, after a free survey. For a single bike the survey is usually a short video call.
Where a carrier earns its fee most is when the destination isn't near a major station, when the owner isn't travelling at the same time as the bike, or when nobody fancies riding through the Tin Factory junction to drop it off.
Getting the bike out of a KR Puram layout lane
Most of KR Puram's housing is in the dense layouts behind Old Madras Road, rented floors and independent houses on lanes that take a tempo but not a bigger vehicle. So the carrier parks up on whichever road nearby has the room, and it's a short walk with the bike from your gate.
On the apartment side, Sobha Lake Garden, Assetz Sun and Sanctum, Salarpuria Sattva Celesta and the Casagrand projects among others, the bike is in a basement and comes up the ramp to the gate. Tell security a day ahead so the guard isn't surprised.
Either way, timing is about the junction. Before eight the roads around Tin Factory move. After that, a carrier can lose an hour sitting in it, so early pickups are the norm here.
Scooty shifting from KR Puram, by rail or road
A scooty is the easiest bike to send either way. On a carrier it's lighter to load and takes less space, so it generally comes out a little cheaper than a motorcycle on the same route. It gets the same wrapping and the same strapping as anything else.
Whichever way it travels, empty the boot. Things left under the seat in a parcel office or on a carrier are the most common complaint in this whole business, and they're entirely avoidable.
Bike and two wheeler transport out of KR Puram by road
For a carrier, KR Puram is about as good a starting point as there is on this side of Bangalore. Old Madras Road leads straight toward Hoskote and the highway, which makes Chennai and Hyderabad clean runs, and Kerala routes are regular too. Smaller towns are served less often, so the wait there can be longer, we'll say so up front.
Run the fuel down to almost nothing. It has to be emptied before the bike is loaded. A photocopy of the RC and of your ID go into the bike's folder, the originals stay in your pocket, and if the RC carries another person's name, add the sale receipt or a short signed note from them.
Moving the whole house as well? Then put the bike on that truck and that invoice. Our KR Puram packers page covers the stairs, the lanes and the junction for a full load.
Get a price for the bike
Tell us the bike, the pickup address in KR Puram and where it's going. One firm written figure on GST, after a free survey on video or in person.
+91 90444 22212Moving the whole house too?
The bike can ride on the same vehicle as your household and go on the same quote. The KR Puram moving page covers the rest of the move.
Packers and Movers in KR PuramHow the bike is packed and carried
The wrapping, the strapping and the condition photos are the same wherever the bike starts. They're explained in full on the service page.
Getting the bike ready in KR Puram
Bike and Scooty Shifting in KR Puram, answered
Our price depends on the destination and the bike, and you get it in writing with GST after a free survey. Rail parcel charges are set by the railway, so check those at the parcel office and compare the two figures side by side.
Sometimes. It can be, especially if you're travelling on the same train route anyway. Remember to count your own time and the trips to and from both stations.
Yes. We collect from where it's parked and deliver to your new address. You don't need to take it anywhere.
Usually not, the lanes behind Old Madras Road are too tight for it to stop. The crew walks the bike out to a road where it can.
Yes. A scooty is handled like any other bike and usually costs a little less than a motorcycle for the same trip.
You'll get a firm delivery day before the bike is loaded, rather than a vague estimate. Chennai is one of our most frequent runs from here.
Both, regularly. Old Madras Road takes the carrier straight out of the city.
Yes, before wrapping and again on delivery, so you can see how it travelled.
Early morning, before Tin Factory and Old Madras Road fill up.
You or someone you send, at the destination station's parcel office. With our carrier it's handed over at your new address.
Our service is the door-to-door carrier. For a rail parcel, the station's parcel office will tell you how they want it packed.