For Sale: Buying a bike in the Netherlands

She only need a 2 or 3 tools to take the bars, wheels and seatpost off?
No friends who can help her with that?

I know, I know. You'd think it would be pretty simple, but apparently not. One thing is, as she is an intern at the ICTY all her friends are interns as well, so only there for 3-6 months, and no that has a tool/knows anything about bikes other than owning one for getting about.

Anyway the problem I have is now trying to convince her to just get on with it and get it done...instead of having tearful conversations on skype...

So, measured the bike. From the back wheel end of the frame, to the front bit (not including the cranks), is a metre, measured as per the diagram earlier. The height without the seat/tires is about 60cm. generous readings. so that's essentially to the maximum size the box can be if dpd. being realistic, i just don't think that will fit. just used some pythagoras to calculate the diagonal, which would give 103cm, so still super tight, plus the height still super tight. would need to be 100% confident about box etc before taking the bike apart, and i realistically don't think i'll be able to get hold of a bike box anywhere near the right size, and thinking about it, not sure how i would cut it down to the right size, it still needs to be a box! remaking it into a new box the right size seems crazy!

Who would have thought something so simple...