Me, Highwaycat and Shirley will be hitting the road soon. YAY! It won't be a glamorous epic journey, but it should be fun nontheless.
We will be flying out to the Kootenays of British Columbia and will ride back through some familiar and some not so familiar roads back to North Vancouver. Approximately 1200 km over 2 weeks. An easy pull.
To make things super easy, I decided to build my own bike box for shipping. I came across a post on https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/ where the concept came from. I basically copied the plan using Shirley's measurements. The skeleton is 1" by 2" pine screwed together with cardboard from 2 bike boxes glued and stapled. This box will allow me to ship Shirley without removing her handlebars and rack and will keep her safe. It's overkill, but I thought that it would be fun and would make departing super easy. The box is a "one and done" scenerio, at $12.00, I'm cool with that.
Anyway, here are a few pics of said bike box...
Screwing 1 by 2 pine together
Kizzmitt is the project manager
The skeleton with HWC and Grasshopper cat
Checking bike placement. All is good (the rack will be lowered) The wheels and forks are supported and everything will be easily scanned by security staff.
Adding the skin. Grasshopper cat inspects...
Skin is glued and stapled (except top)
Kizzmitt displays the stare of approval.
Anyway, the box comes to about 109 linear inches. The Air Canada allowance is 115". Also, it comes in at well below the 70lb. limit. Even if HWC was a stowaway.
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