HOW TO PACK YOUR CARBON BIKE FOR TRAVEL – PART 1.

Soft or hard boxes? The debate rolls on. I always thought hard boxes were the safest until a cyclist friend, who actually worked as a bag packer at Gatwick, suggested that soft bags/ cardboard were generally treated more carefully while the hard cases often were found at the very bottom of a pile of holiday cases due to their size and handled with a little less care then the softer more vulnerable bags. Don’t test my theory until you read part 2.
Dutch manufacturer Vanmoof for example printed an image of a TV on the box which reduced bike damage by 70-80% so there must be something in it. Unfortunately for some soft bag design there are glowing design errors which I will attempt to help mitigate in part 2.