how did you manage to get a branded box an appropriately branded box
we've got 370 for the week three three euros 70 cents will that suffice
welcome to alicante we're about to cycle 600 kilometers up the coast but today's
video as we've got a free day is going to be dedicated to how to pack your bike when
you go bike packing number one get a really good cardboard box this one is a proper one
that's had a bike in before purpose made and the perfect size jimmy's one is [ __ ] it also had
a bike in it but it was a mountain bike of the e variety and therefore the box was incredibly large
took about an hour and lots of help from emily but we basically cut the box down
to the size and it's actually ended up smaller than your one it's very convenient what it means
is that you can make a box out of other boxes rather than having a special box and it's become
a special box you could sell it on i'm going to that's how they're funding this trip two
get some bubble wrap and bubble wrap up your helmet bike packing luggage
anything else that you want to take with you that you're not going to take in your hand luggage
if you're good with this usually you can get away with a small drawstring bag or in my case
one of my panniers to take onto the plane so you just got minimal valuables
in a bag like that everything else could go inside your bike box which has got a
much higher weight limit i think you're allowed up to 30 kilograms in the flight we just took
actually 32 so you can put loads of your stuff in there doing a nice thick layer of bubble wrap
also means you can pad out the box and stop things from moving around as much when it's
actually inside helmet's pretty robust and it just stops the box from collapsing in on itself
if people get rough with it on the uh runway recycled from an older i bought i bought
something i remember what it was came with these kept it please look first bonus tip here if you
have a proper purpose-made bike box then it probably would have come with some bits of foam
like this these are fantastic for the reasons i mentioned before you can use them to stop the
box collapsing in on itself and you can put your wheel through these slots but chances of having
these and your purpose made pipe lagging fairly unlikely so instead pack all your clothes into
a drawstring bag and use that for padding it'll be nice and soft and you can use that which is
about the width of a bike box to uh stop things from moving around place your bike in the box
like this with the back wheel on shifted to your easiest gear and big ring on the front that keeps
the chain under tension and it's least likely to fall off and then move around and cause scratches
and that kind of thing remove your seat post completely you're going to bubble wrap that and
put that in as a separate item undo your top cap and your stem bolts take the stem completely off
and tuck your handlebars into the frame and loop them around i'll flash up on the screen what this
looks like you want to put some pipe lagging or a little bit of bubble wrap as protection just in
between the bars and the frame but i found this is the best and most secure location for them in this
case i've also left my bar bag and food pouches on there as well which again are squashed in between
the frame and the bars make sure the front wheel is taken out if you're using disc brakes make sure
you put something in between the caliper just in case your lever gets squeezed so the pads don't
stick together you can use something as simple as a clean plastic card or a piece of paper for this
i keep stuff that i might need on the other end like di2 charger set of allen keys my through
axles all inside the pouches of my bike luggage so that's inside the box ready to go as soon as
i open it up i imagine most people won't want to be bike packing carrying around a tape measure so
a small piece of electrical tape at the top of your seat post to mark
how high you have it is very handy thing to do mine also has this uh nice rubber thing pedals
i'm putting these on last and i took them off first if you do leave your pedals on there
probably won't be any space for your front wheel so this is one of the first things you
want to take off the bike while both wheels are still on because it makes it much easier
i personally think that using a box in this way to get a bike somewhere is better than using one
of those soft bags yeah i've used them as soft bags before and i got a bike totaled
i think the main reason is if a baggage handler isn't able to easily maneuver it then they're
probably going to end up chucking it or something rather than that gets damaged whereas with these
boxes they're relatively small they're quite light i think both of ours ended up being about 19 kilos
hands on either side they probably see stuff like this all the time probably even happy with
stuff like this because it's super easy because i'm just lift up move it goes on one of those
automatic try things really well as obviously if you can afford a hard box it's the best option
personally i would always do a box if i had to a cardboard box over a soft bike bag me and jimmy
have opted for different uh methods when it comes to how to transport a pair of sunglasses mine
are in my helmet if it's going to protect your head probably protect your glasses in your shoe
so that's pretty much how i'd pack my bike this does leave you with a small predicament of
how to get rid of a giant cardboard bike box we're in a hotel today and they've been very kind and
they're going to be getting rid of the box for us sometimes though that is quite hard to achieve
because well it's just a bit of a weird request especially if there's a language barrier we can
hold your luggage for you until tomorrow we're like no we're doing it back can you keep the boxes
we'll return in a week for them on the whole most places are happy to oblige but if you can't find
somewhere then usually behind the hotel there'll be some very big bins next to the bins you can
put a box and generally it's always been okay that's what we did in america we're at a bit
of a sketch motel digging out motels in america well some motels are alright and some of them
have blood on the wall they work what whose flat is it i don't know we never found out
is it fresh was it still wet that concludes our tips for flying with your bike for bike packing
a sensible set of people would now go and test ride the bikes and make sure they're working
but one can't be bothered two if we do find out there's something wrong with our bikes
i mean what's going to happen we'll worry about it all that's the only option is you stress about
it all night and then deal with in the morning or what we can do is not do it in the morning
find out in the morning then deal with it in the morning that's the best tip of the month training
to barcelona i say that we have had a successful journey and now we should acquire some local
food from the local fooderies tapas and we want big food we have to order so much and tapas
i don't know how to translate this but a perfect example of where you can leave cardboard boxes
at the bins i'm gonna guess it's that one that one's glass organic is that glass or is it
no glass i think it's no glass but we don't have glass that's fine so there perfect right behind
the hotel something like this is always there that is always there everything's very fancy isn't it
we've somehow ended up in like the really fancy bit like fancy glasses no i just wasn't expecting
it there's a lambo down there we've eaten our body weight in pizza my legs are feeling actually quite
sore from pushing that cardboard box for what felt like about five miles through the airport but i'm
looking forward to tomorrow yeah me too did you film the pizza no ah mate that was that was too
big to film i would have had to use a fisheye lens to get it it was one of the best pizzas i
think i've ever had it was fantastic really good so good if you're ever in uh alicante that is
where we are isn't it yes woodpecker pizza check it out thanks for watching see you guys tomorrow