Originally Posted by
gsa103
I don't usually post in touring, but this seemed to be the best place.
I'm moving soon, and need to box all my bikes for moving.
I've watched a few videos and things seem reasonably straight-forward, but I had a few questions?
1) What do you use to protect the cranks/chainrings?
I've just got an empty bike box from the store and don't really want the bike resting on the chainring, what's good to place under the bottom-bracket and how do you prop it there?
2) Alternatives to wheel caps?
3) Protection for drop-outs?
I don't have the bike shop plastic things, what else works.
Thanks in advance.
Leave the rear wheel and the fork on the bike and it should not rest on the chain ring.
Wheel caps? No idea what you mean.
Dropouts are a worry. Fedex bested mine. Bike shop will have a plastic insert to keep the forks separated. To keep the dropouts from slamming on the floor, I have tried a coupe of things. I have wrapped them in clothes I was also shipping. I also zip tied a couple of scraps of narrow lumber to the forks.