Originally Posted by
Iride01
I'd have your mule put it in a bag and check the bag. Why take a chance. Even if you can find some reason to believe it's okay or TSA tells you ahead of time that it's okay, if the TSA guy on the day it goes through the scanner flags it and wrongly confiscates it, you aren't going to get it back.
Canada's kind of strict on bicycle parts coming in aren't they. I might worry more about that. 13% duty isn't it?
Unless things have changed, I believe the 13% import duty applies only to 'complete bicycles' -- new ones.
AFAIK there is no duty on bike parts, with the exception of 'complete wheels' (e.g. wheelsets), nor on used bikes.