I just reassembled four bikes for a new customer who moved to my town. Each
bike was shipped in a Cannondale box which has the following virtues:
Oversized (about 10" thick,) heavy cardboard, bottom fold is well glued
together, and C-dale ships their bikes with a separate heavy cardboard
pallet to which the frame minus wheels are tied to, the wheels fitting
alongside. By apparantly doing nothing but aping the original packing
format, the shop that shipped these bikes did a first class job and the
machines showed up in fine shape.
Classic content: 1980-something Super Record equipped Bottecchia was in one
of the boxes. I would not be afraid to ship any bike in a Cannondale box.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA
> Check with your local bike shop(s) as some do rent out hard side bike
> specific cases as a service to their customers (typically to ship a bike
for
> a bike tour...).
> Angel Garcia
> Long Valley, NJ
>
>
> > I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worthwhile for list members to rent
Trico
> > Iron Cases even though there would be the additional cost of shipping
the
> > case back and forth and paying the 30# oversize charge..... Does anyone
> know of
> > shops/suppliers that rent them.
> > Hugh Enox
> > La Honda