Riders slapped with large post-Brexit fees
Five-and-a-half thousand euros or go home. That was the ultimatum given by Spanish customs officers when Owen Watkins of Bagman Cycling travel company turned up at Santander on the ferry from Portsmouth with nine bikes in the van.
The bikes weren’t company property – Watkins and colleague Martin McGreary were simply couriering them over while the bikes’ owners flew. They had even been told by HMRC that an ATA Carnet – which is essentially a passport for goods –
