Originally Posted by
Steve_sr
Hello,
Me and the bike will soon be taking an airplane ride halfway across the planet and am wondering on the advisability of removing the front brake rotor to prevent damage in transit. The bike will be shipped in a recycled bike shop cardboard box without any special OEM packaging. So the bike may be subject to shifting around in the box a bit and heaven only knows how TSA will repackage everything once they unpack everything for inspection.
Any thoughts, experiences, comments?
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
No offence, but maybe you should have a bike shop pack it for you?
Putting a bike in a box so it can move around is asking for breakage, and there's a fair list of parts that I remove before getting to the disk; pedals, rear derailleur, wheels, etc. I do more disassembly than most folks, and more than you might need to, but it's a large bike and I get it within airline baggage size limits.
Yeah, I pull my discs, and the wheels go in semi-soft bags.
