Bike Box urgently needed

geoff doughty said:

Does anybody know where I can preferably hire or borrow a bike box for the last week in May.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Check out www.aircaddy.com I use this box when I travel to races. It's awesome!!! The cool thing is that its totally reusable too.

Tailwinds,
Vector7

geoff doughty said:

Does anybody know where I can preferably hire or borrow a bike box for the last week in May.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Don't know where you are at, but several LBS in my area (Seattle) rent them.

Vector7 said:

Check out www.aircaddy.com I use this box when I travel to races. It's awesome!!! The cool thing is that its totally reusable too.

You might also check out www.crateworks.com

You can also recycle a box from a new bike from your LBS, although it won't protect as well as the ones listed above it works fine for many people, that's what I do. I pack a few towels and such with the bike to help protect it and haven't had a problem the one time I shipped it out and back.

geoff doughty said:

Does anybody know where I can preferably hire or borrow a bike box for the last week in May.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry I can't help with the box, but Bicycling Magazine's May 2005 issue has a detailed and illustrated article on boxing a bike for air shipment. I hope that this is helpful.

Performance have their cases on special at the moment for 200 bucks. Not exactly a hire rate but if you're going to be doing this regularly may be worth considering.

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