Lardasse--You have the same thought in mind as me when packing : "Pack assuming the box is going to be run over by the truck before they even start trying to damage it. "-----very true


RG-- In the Box, I found one of those little plastic mushroom axle protectors you mention smashed into 3 little pieces so that in of itself shows the Box received a pretty good Hit or Drop in transit to shatter it into small pieces. Again, not a friggin' single piece of extra styrofoam to prevent the Bike from shifting fore & aft and side to side in the Box. It just rattled around loose in the box during transit.This level of service coming from this usually great company was a big disappointment. Again, I'm amazed it arrived unscathed and not in a Pretzel shaped piece of Metal.