Bikes on REX dont need boxes!! :)

casurina99 said:

Hi all,

Booked myself a flight up the coast on REX (Regional Express) the other day. They take bikes with no box.
Just front wheels and pedals off, turn the bars, wrap the chain, and your flying!!

So good.

Gotta fly with them. (Excess baggage only $2 per kg too)

Tom

Have you ever seen ground staff *hurling* bike boxes onto the conveyer on the tarmac? It's a sight to behold, through the porthole 10 mins from takeoff, running late (them, not me), especially when that particular box is sure as hell yours.

How do they propose to keep your bike in working order, and without substantial chunks of paint missing WITH NO BOX OR PROTECTION AT ALL? Be afraid, be very afraid . . .

mfhor said:

casurina99 said:

Hi all,

Booked myself a flight up the coast on REX (Regional Express) the other
day. They take bikes with no box.
Just front wheels and pedals off, turn the bars, wrap the chain, and
your flying!!

So good.

Gotta fly with them. (Excess baggage only $2 per kg too)

Tom

Have you ever seen ground staff *hurling* bike boxes onto the conveyer
on the tarmac? It's a sight to behold, through the porthole 10 mins from
takeoff, running late (them, not me), especially when that particular
box is sure as hell yours.

How do they propose to keep your bike in working order, and without
substantial chunks of paint missing WITH NO BOX OR PROTECTION AT ALL?
Be afraid, be very afraid . . .

You ain't seen nuttin' till you've been inside the cargo hold, out of
sight of prying eyes. That's when the "portering tool" comes into
operation (the size 12 steel cap).

--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

mfhor said:

Have you ever seen ground staff *hurling* bike boxes onto the conveyer on the tarmac? It's a sight to behold, through the porthole 10 mins from takeoff, running late (them, not me), especially when that particular box is sure as hell yours.

How do they propose to keep your bike in working order, and without substantial chunks of paint missing WITH NO BOX OR PROTECTION AT ALL? Be afraid, be very afraid . . .

This is why the stable includes bikes for flying with unprotected... 🙂

Yeah I seen what they do.

To date 12 plane trips - nothing bent nothing broken. Some light scratches from lack of packing attention, but mostly so far so good.

I use the boxes on sale by the companies at the airport, which have handles the guys actually use... I also fly non stop flights if I can = less handling.

Also arriving last minute means it always goes on top. The dudes at Virgin are pretty good. I watched them _place_ my bike on top of the load using 2 people. OHS is good for some things 🙂

T

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 at 23:14 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Have you ever seen ground staff *hurling* bike boxes onto the conveyer
on the tarmac? It's a sight to behold, through the porthole 10 mins from
takeoff, running late (them, not me), especially when that particular
box is sure as hell yours.

How do they propose to keep your bike in working order, and without
substantial chunks of paint missing WITH NO BOX OR PROTECTION AT ALL?
Be afraid, be very afraid . . .

As one of the poor guys who unloaded bikes from BV trucks at the last
GVBR:

I came to hate boxed bikes. Or bikes with bubble wrap everywhere. I
also noted that BV neglected to tell people that they were to
*tighten* up the handlebars when they were turned.

The smoothest bikes, that caused the least pain, and could just be
rolled out down the ramp? The free standing ones.

The ones that were boxed? Had to be picked up, usually had no handles,
usually things rattling all over the place. Quite a few boxes were
dropped on the truck floor, and/or scraped across the corugated floor,
as people fought with the damn things -- I'd hate to see the state of
their forks. I wore a staple, and because it was hot and my blood was
flowing, I lost a heck of a lot of blood for such a small cut. Didn't
notice until it got all over my clothes 🙂

The bubble wrapped ones? Had to be lifted, because couldn't be rolled,
as the bubble wrap got tangled, and probably bent a few derailleurs.
Usually didn't have anything convenient to hold, and posed a hazard as
they were being passed from one volunteer to the next, if one's finger
got stuck in a place it shouldn't have.

FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FELLOW RIDERS, JUST LET YOUR BIKE BE NAKED!

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
To bowl a maiden over:
i. Remove Cover and Extra Cover.
ii. Move fine leg to square leg.
Hmm, I can't seem to think of a way to finish this. --Sid on RHOD

TimC said:

<<SNIP>>

FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FELLOW RIDERS, JUST LET YOUR BIKE BE NAKED!

--
TimC -- astronomy.swin.edu.autconnorsOpen ↗
To bowl a maiden over:
i. Remove Cover and Extra Cover.
ii. Move fine leg to square leg.
Hmm, I can't seem to think of a way to finish this. --Sid on RHOD

Yeah I agree!

Go free sweet bicycle! Frollick at will!!

T

casurina99 said:

Yeah I agree!

Go free sweet bicycle! Frollick at will!!

T

Trapped in a steel box whilst being crushed by overweight American suitcases?

Not even a hardcase is proof against groundstaff brutality. I saw the tines of a forklift go through one once. The driver got off, scratched his head, pulled it off and tossed it onto the baggage trolley, then drove off, away from the terminal. Bet there weren't no paperwork filed on that 'incident'.

M "going to Tassie on the boat next time, bugger the expense" H