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If you’re nervous and can drive via Swindon, I have a big plastic solid bike box you or anyone else can borrow.
It’s biiiig though. You only need to remove the wheels and turn the bars, and remove the rear mech for safety, but the weight of the box is more than most modern bikes.
If you’re removing the wheels get a couple plastic dropout keeper things from a bike shop (often chucked after they assemble bikes that are delivered) to avoid damage to forks and rear stays.
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You'll be fine.
You might want to fix a skateboard truck or some sort of wheel to the bottom as when loaded it'll become quite hard to move.
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I'd imagine it would be fine but you may want to measure up and check your airlines oversized baggage policy. Most of them have a limit of about 3m in total dimensions (height + length + depth).
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Probably worth cutting it down - some airlines have size restrictions and you might find a large box falls outside these dimensions...
Beaten to it...the other thing is a longer bike box is harder to man handle.
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Following plenty of positive stories here and online generally re flying with bikes in bikeshop-sourced cardboard boxes I dutifully found myself a box and getting my shit together. However, now I'm looking at it I reckon I was expecting something slightly smaller - i.e. that I would have to take off the wheels and really pack it in, etc. The box I've got is basically big enough to fit the bike with wheels on and handlebars turned. Is this what people have used before, any particular tips (assuming I'll take pedals off and wrap as much as I can in bubble wrap/pipe protector things) and put other belongings (up to airline weight limit) around it to pad out/stop any shifting about... any thoughts would be much appreciated from experienced cardboard-box-fliers to assuage my pre-flight nerves!
Cheers