| POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Bicycle Shipping Containers
Cardboard Boxes • Reusable
Shipping Containers
All bicycles must be properly disassembled and boxed
in an appropriate shipping container to be shipped
(including all shipping carriers and almost all long
distance public transportation carriers).
When getting a bicycle shipping container, you should
pay particular attention to its dimensions and how
they compare to the standard and oversize shipping
dimensions and charges of the different shipping carriers.
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Here for more information about
shipping carriers.
- Click
Here for more information about
long distance public transportation carriers.
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Please note that your shipping container may be scuffed
up or damaged in transit due to normal wear and tear.
Cardboard Boxes
Cardboard boxes are always better than a reusable
shipping container to ship your bike. If you plan
on shipping your bicycle to one location before the start
of
the event and from a
different
location
after
the end of the event (such as point to point, one
way events) we STRONGLY prefer you
use a disposable cardboard bicycle box
as
your
shipping
container.
They are very inexpensive, easily
available at any local bike shop, and can easily be
discarded, recycled, or folded up, stored, and reused
after you are done using it. Most bike
shops usually
provide one for free anyways as part
of the disassembly and boxing
service fee. Because of this and because they
are so big and bulky and will fall apart as they get handled multiple
times, we will
not transport any cardboard bicycle boxes during our events.
If you use a cardboard box as your shipping container we
recommend cutting some slots in it so handlers can easily
grab it
to move
it.
Boxes
often get
torn
open
for lack of a place to grab.
Reusable
Shipping Containers
If you will be using a reusable shipping
container to ship your bicycle
to and from the same
location before
and after the event, we strongly
prefer that you plan on leaving it with friends and
family
or other similiar location during
the event if possible. We STRONGLY prefer
not to transport
them and our mechanic STRONGLY prefers
not to store them because
they are so big and bulky and take up way too much very limited
storage space. If you do not have an
alternate location to leave it, you can leave it with our
mechanic as a last resort. We also
recommend that
you leave your return shipping documents inside
it so they do not get lost or destroyed during the event.
We will allow you to transport your reusable
shipping container on our baggage
truck during an event if you are absolutely unable to store
it anywhere else during the
event or must take it with you, such as if you plan on shipping
your bicycle to one location before the start of
the event and from a
different
location
after
the end of the event. However it will be your one
and only allowable piece of baggage and you must keep all
your personal items
inside it. In addition, it will be handled as part
of our normal baggage delivery service and dropped off and
picked up directly at the event ending location, main lodging
site, or supported hotel as appropriate.
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Here for more information about baggage
transportation during our events.
- Click
Here for more information about in town
transportation.
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