Been packing up bicycles for quite a while now. I am loath to use all of that plastic pipe warp. I find it to be costly and environmentally unfriendly. For my money, I just use heavy cardboard, wrapped around tubing or what ever, and tightly tie-wrapped into place. But that is just me and I have sent over 500 bicycles to almost every corner of the planet. This one went to Japan...
And this one came with me to Jamaica...
The guy at the airport said that I did such a good job of packing, he would wave the $75.00 fee and charge me only $25.00 for a second piece of luggage.