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Bike boxes

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  • Started 10 years ago by paolobr
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  1. paolobr
    Member

    Any experiences or recommendations regarding bike boxes for transporting bike by air? I'm heading to the Alps in the summer with brother and daughter, we're taking our own bikes, looking to invest in suitable packaging.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. ARobComp
    Member

    Think the Tri centre rent them out...

    OTherwise get old bike boxes from EBC and pack them in - cable tie everything together and wrap in tape that says FRAGILE

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. paolobr
    Member

    Ha, was in the Tri shop on Sunday as my daughter wanted to check out the shop. Saw some boxes downstairs but the floor was closed, didn't think to ask...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. LaidBack
    Member

    We have a few boxes of varying sizes. Dave used couple for his Cuba trip. Uberuce also for play materials...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. fimm
    Member

    Do you mean improvised boxes (usually cardboard) or ones that you buy/rent (usually rigid or partly well padded fabric, partly rigid)? I have used the latter. You need somewhere to store them while you are cycling, they are pretty big!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. Dave
    Member

    We just used cardboard ones from Laid Back for our Cuba trip, but the other three riders used the CTC plastic bike bags with success, and this was massively less inconvenient (we had to carry plastic anyway for internal bus rides) - check your airline's rules to see what you can get away with.

    Personally I'd be inclined just to use plastic bags if I were you, since I find it less likely that stuff will be piled on naked bikes by the handlers, whereas the boxes seem stackable.

    Sainsbury's do a cheap 50m fragile tape which I liberally wrapped our boxes in... the bikes are fine.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. ARobComp
    Member

    there are some good tips and tricks online for making sure you keep the bike safe. I suppose it comes down to the materials you're using.

    I wouldn't for a second put a carbon bike in anything other than a hard bike box. However aluminium so long as you got some sort of mechanism to stop forks and rear triangle being squeezed would be fine in cardboard.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. paolobr
    Member

    3 boxes sourced locally.

    Thanks all.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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