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This is the first season that Joanne is doing triathlon and she is going to be
doing the PTO US Open in September where she has to travel down to the states.
So we have a canyon bike and a she can bag
and we are going to teach her how to take apart a bike and pack it for trouble.
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Okay, so you should be able to do this
basically just with a set of Alan keys for this bike.
For sure you can for your bike.
Same deal for most people's bikes.
It's going to be a set of keys, maybe another tool here or there.
But for you, just a set of Alan Keyes.
We're going to hang on to that.
And first things first, take off the wheels.
So you're going to take off the through axle, which is there.
So you just unscrew that.
Here, screw this.
Yeah, just turn it. Righty tighty, lefty.
Lucy. There you go.
If it's a through axle, which yours isn't, you'll need a set of Alan keys,
and then you just Alan key that axle out and then pull it out.
Now, that should be enough to then pull it out.
Okay, so that's going to be enough to take off the wheel.
Oh, here you go. Set that aside.
Back wheel is a little bit more difficult
to do, so that's where you'll need an Alan key.
So find whatever Alan Key fits that.
Okay, now flip it around this way to take it out and not get your hands disgusting.
Get any rag or you can get ooh,
you can get gloves, gloves, curling gloves, gloves left over.
Yes.
Have a couple of those and then grab the chain just to give yourself some room
and then pull the wheel out and then yank the chain off to the side.
So I'll put it back on to show you how to put it back on.
And you basically just grab it,
get it into one spoke or one cog and then line it up with.
The brake pad because this is disc brakes. Okay.
And then it will basically center itself if you get it in there.
So then you would put the through axle back in.
When you do that, you go ahead and take that out.
Okay. So you lifted it up.
Grab the chain, pull it back.
And then just pull the wheel back.
And then pull the chain over to the side.
Oh, okay. All right.
And there you go.
You have a bike that's ready to pack.
I like to use the shaken bag.
And the reason for that is she con bag is
very good because you don't have to take the bike apart a whole lot.
Basically with this, you're packing up the bike with other bags.
You have to take off the bars.
You have to take apart almost everything.
And in my experience,
I've had some of those other bags where you do have to take everything apart.
And the more you take apart and then put back together and take apart and put back
together, that ended up breaking the bike over and over.
Right.
So you gain a lot in ease of use by using a second bag.
But I'll show you a trick that you can use
if you get really, really worried about breaking the bars.
So with a shaken bag, you just unfold it.
I like these a lot too,
because they're soft sided and they pack away really easily,
as opposed to having a big hard case which takes up an enormous amount of room.
So open it up.
Unzip it all the way.
Okay, so we're going to put the front
of the bike there, the rear of the bike here.
Let's do the back first because the back doesn't move.
So because this is a through axle, we've got to take these out,
these spacers for a traditional axle that will allow us to use our own.
And we want this
little guard, whatever bike box you have, you want to have a chain guard?
On the side of the chain.
Going to take the chain.
And wrap it over.
So it's going to go on that piece of rubber.
There we go.
And then when you tighten it, I'll let you do that to feel it.
Get it like comfortably tight.
Not tight, tight, tight.
Just finger tight.
They're good enough. Yep.
Okay. Okay.
So the team is around, trainers around there,
and we're going to we're going to do something for that in just a second.
Do the same thing on the front.
We'll pull this forward as much as we need to to line it up.
Don't matter which side I'm putting this on.
Same as the back.
You're putting the lever on?
Yeah, the lever goes on.
The non drive train side and the drive train.
Meaning the chain. So the chain side.
There we go. Same thing.
Just kind of tight.
Okay, so this is all the.
The easy part here. Wheels.
Grab the wheels and we'll put them in.
When you're putting in the wheels,
make sure that they're flat so they don't change in pressure as you fly.
I'll grab one, you grab the other and put it in the other side.
Most bike bags are going to have a a specific wheel section,
and sometimes it'll matter which side is in, which side is out.
But in this bag, it doesn't.
So just to zip it up, you've basically got a packed bag again with the second bag.
It's super nice.
The seat can stay on, the handlebars can stay on.
You might have to move the handlebars
in a little bit to get some room, but you can basically close it up right now.
But what I like to do
that not everyone does is to protect the frame from the chain.
We'll just show this with a rag,
but you get a big towel, wrap it around the entire chain
so that the chain isn't going to rattle side to side and scratch up the frame.
Okay.
So if you just wrap it up, push it up to the side.
A towel? Yeah, towels.
Really nice because it just shoves in.
Then I will often take towels and cover the frame here.
Cover the frame there.
Cover the frame in any places just by wrapping a towel around like you would
around your waist, just like snug it up to itself.
And that gives you the room in the ability
to put your helmet in here, put your shoes in here, put all kinds of stuff in here.
And it's not going to go over £50 as long
as you don't put in super, super heavy things.
Rule of thumb, to make sure that you don't
end up at a race and all of a sudden not have the tools that you need is every
tool that you've used to take the bike apart,
put it in the box with you, and then you should be able to put it together.
So for the second bag, that is it.
Besides wrapping it all up and we could
show all of the nuts and bolts of getting it all together.
But the big things that you want to keep
in mind are making sure that the frame at the back,
this te or this triangle here, this rear triangle can't go in and out.
That's what'll tend to break it.
So having something in between like this
post and the through axle, going through that stops it from moving.
Same on the front.
If you want, you could take off the driller here.
But frankly, I just think that that's more
things that can go wrong because it's rattling around.
If it's here and it's in place, all it's going to do is move back and forth.
So I think it's actually safer there.
These are the things that you need to keep in mind.
Front fork, rear triangle.
Wrap everything up in a towel.
Shove all of your tools in and that's about it.
Do you have to roll over your seat?
Like, how are you?
It just depends on the bag. Depends on the bag.
It depends on the person.
What if I get people our sized? We're okay.
Like. Yeah, like a fancy bike fit.
And then I got to move everything around.
And then on race day, I'm not.
If you do have to do that,
you take a piece of tape, put it on the spot that your
saddle is set up, and then you can loosen it, drop it down,
and then you just pull it back up and put it to the tape line.
Same with the front bars.
If you have to move them in.
Just make a mark with some tape.
Move them back and then you can move them forward.
Little piece of electrical tape is all you need and it'll stay.
Got it. And my tires are deflated.
So my bringing a bike, an air pump as well, or it's not going to be there.
Yes, there will be air pumps there in transition.
Well, that's got to be inflating my bike tires.
Exactly. You should have a couple of days before
then where you can make sure the bike is actually rolling.
So there's a bike pump that we really like
that is a little expensive, but it's very nice for travel.
It is right in behind you there.
Oh, why don't you go grab that to show the nice people.
Grab it and it's all corporate in there.
Yup.
So the bike shop man was very helpful.
He said, I'm taking off my front wheel and just like loading it in my car,
I need to make sure I'm putting a spacer between as well.
But another spacer that he might be talking about.
Is a spacer in the disc brake. Yeah.
And there was like a little red thing,
a little red tab that you'd put in the red tab.
So that little red tab to get in there it is.
If you want to make sure that no TSA person comes and just goes,
let's see how these bike brakes feel and then lock that.
That's why you put the spacer.
It's got to be you've got to be vigilant. Got to be vigilant.
Can read the brief, not zip it up.
Good to go.
This bag comes with a TSA padlock.
Padlock?
The main zippers together right there.
So they have to be able to get into this.
But you don't want anyone else to be able to break.
This one's really nice because you can lob it over your shoulder or roller on it.
Bam!
Now you got to put it back together.
So that's putting together a bike bag.
John, where should people follow you in your first try?
Second try this year. Yeah.
So two tries.
It'll be at Joanne Courtney, 89 on Instagram.
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