shipping bicycles

May 17, 2007 at 8:36 pm · Filed under life

1. You can get a box suitable for shipping a bicycle in at most bike shops. They’ll be happy to give it to you. Bikes arrive at bike shops in boxes but very seldom leave in them.

2. It is hard to remove pedals yourself. You are likely to be confused about how to do it, and you might even find your knuckles gashed open by the chain ring. If you’re lucky, it’ll be a small puncture wound that doesn’t bleed very much. You may wonder when you had your last tetanus shot. You might be better off just taking your bike to a shop and having them remove the pedals. You could also have them show you how to do it, and then just go ahead and buy the special wrench.

3. It is hard to fit your bicycle into a box. Bicycle boxes are for new bikes, and used bikes are bigger and bulkier, somehow. You will take all kinds of things off your bike and twist it this way and that, and somehow you’ll get it to fit. Then you’ll notice that the box is completely bowed and it’s rubbing in five places and your bike will not even make it to Toledo, let alone Seattle.

4. You need a helper. This is not a project you can do with one person. Also, cursing loudly in your garage so that it echoes so nicely is just not as fun unless someone else is there to hear you. You’ve been working on these creative swears, it would be a shame to waste them on an empty garage.

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