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Packing your Bike

With a decent bike bag or cardboard box 'acquired' from your local bike shop and a bit of care, your bike will arrive in perfect condition. It's very rare for bikes to be damaged in transit, but a few tips will reduce the chance a whole lot more... Check with your airline as to their own requirements, but here's our guide.

Packing your bike with SeasonallyUNadjusted- Remove the wheels, taking the skewers out and the disk brake rotors off too. Let some, but not all the air out of the tyres.
- Wrap the rotors in something clean to keep them grease free.
- Insert spacers into the brake calipers to stop the pistons getting squeezed together (use either the plastic spacers new bikes come with - ask at your bike shop - or a wedge of cardboard)
- Remove rear mech, pad it and zip tie it to the frame
- Put spacers between the dropouts front and back (again ask at your local shop or make some from plastic pipe and QR skewers)
- Take the handlebars off at the stem, pad them and zip tie them to your frame
- Pad everything else with bubble wrap, pipe lagging etc and bag or box the whole lot up.

Don't forget any special tools you need to put your bike back together, a roll of tape and bunch of zip ties to pack for the return journey...

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