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Buying a full bike from Tredz is a bit of an arse-clenching experience.
The way they ship the bike means some damage to the box is inevitable: handlebars spun 90 degrees and rotated so that the brake levers are parallel to the ground.
Even though they cut open another bike box and hung it over the bike, the exposed ends of the brake levers still punctured both the inner cardboard and the outer bike box, and left some small scratches on the levers.
They also use a little cardboard tube with elastic bands attached as a derailleur/rear mech guard.
I nearly had a heart attack when the TNT driver opened the shutter of his van and the bike was on its side. Luckily nothing was on it...
As far as the rest of its journey from Tredz to my door... ignorance is bliss!
Luckily it was delivered in fab working condition, drivetrain set up perfectly, just those small scuffs on the brake levers to knock them down a few points