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Cardboard boxes to ship a bike?

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  • 11-05-2017 10:15pm
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    Hungryhill
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭


    I have been looking at many .ie mail order packaging websites and I can't find one that sells cardboard boxes to ship a bicycle! Normally these are approx. 150x25x90 but I would like something real sturdy since I am relocating abroad and need to ship a couple of bikes with the courier.
    I have found some on Amazon uk and even ebay but all reviews say that even double-walled ones are paper thin.
    I live remotely in the West otherwise I would ask a bike shop, but there's none here.
    Any idea, links etc....???
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    crossmolinalad
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


    At the airport from the airliner you fly with search their website
    What to do take a bike on flight
    Got one for myself when I got on holydays with the bike


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    Type 17
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    Most bike shops will have one (for free), if you don't mind travelling a bit - a bike manufacturer's box will be good quality if it hasn't been knocked about too much.
    Call the shop with a few days notice, to give them a chance to keep you some boxes, and avoid breaking them up for recycling.


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    Hungryhill
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭Hungryhill


    as said I live in the West, I can't travel 500km to say, Dublin, asking bike shops for a cardboard box.
    This one http://www.packingboxes.co.uk/bicycle-bike-boxes/ seems sturdy enough (?)


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    Type 17
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    Which county? - are there no bikes shops at all?


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    iwillhtfu
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    Hungryhill wrote: »
    as said I live in the West, I can't travel 500km to say, Dublin, asking bike shops for a cardboard box.
    This one http://www.packingboxes.co.uk/bicycle-bike-boxes/ seems sturdy enough (?)

    I'd be fairly confident they have a few bike shops out whest :eek:


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    OP if you happen to be in Donegal/Letterkenny or know someone coming up this way I have a cardboard box that my new bike arrived in last week and you are welcome to have it FOC.


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    Hungryhill
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭Hungryhill


    thanks for the kind offer Cee-Jay-Cee! I am moving abroad so besides the two bikes, I was thinking to get 2 more exact size boxes for my clothing, computer etc. (I don't own much LOL).

    Something like four same size 150x30x90ish boxes would help with the courier I guess, storage and packing, and make for an easier transport.


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