5" packaging stretch wrap on a handle. https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/444327/Office-Depot-Brand-Stretch-Wrap-Film/
I got one of these (mine from Home Depot) for something around here and I use it for more ways than they could put in the packaging. It's just the thing for wrapping headsets to prevent highway speed lube blowout/rain washout, the junction of seatpost to seat tube, saddles to create a protective cover that won't flutter/fail if you finish it off with nicely applied piece of packing tape. You can also wrap potential points along the frame or parts that my rub or be touched others. Not helicopter tape, but comes off. A little scissors cut (Those Swiss Army Knives) at the edge and the whole thickness of many wrapped layers can be removed at once. Also used it to bind stacks of old hardwood flooring curated for later use, keeping parts of furniture together for transport, as an overwrap to keep a balm on a foot/ankle instead of soaking into a sock/shoe and to hold a big gauze on a cleaned and covered abrasion that no self-adhesive equivalent will fit or stay on longer than five minutes. The worst "in-transit" beausage I've seen was wheel related (you are thankfully free from the horror of these with your rack). A wheel's rim braking surface gouged deeply by a pedal was one. Can't fix that other than sanding it smooth as functionally possible so the brake pad can pass over it without grabbing and making a loud "thonk" while still moving. The other was a spot-fried until blown out tire of the bike nearest the exhaust. Not a proximity noticed when loading since most vehicles are discrete about their exhaust pipes. Then you're going down the road and hear a gunshot-like sound. You don't immediately see the scorched part of tire when you stop to look, but that one is flat and wonder how. When the other side facing the exhaust is discovered, then you immediately know what happened and that you'll need a new tire and tube. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 3:56:58 PM UTC-4 Scott G. wrote: > Plastic bags first, then some packaging stretch film, them some clear > packing tape > to secure the stretch film. Zip tie the pipe insulation. > I do the above routine for the seat, and shifty bits on the handlebars. > Carry the tape & film with you on the trip, you can make repairs at rest > stops. > Think like an Egyptian Embalmer, wrap for the ages. > > On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 7:18:14 AM UTC-4 Julian Westerhout wrote: > >> It is time to buy a small enclosed cargo trailer! >> >> :) >> >> >> For the saddles double plastic bag them, tape the bottom, and then put on >> a saddle cover so the bags don't shred in the wind. They'll stay dry that >> way. >> >> Julian Westerhout >> Bloomington, IL >> >> >> On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 4:08:50 PM UTC-5, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! >> wrote: >>> >>> Every year I point the van north and drive from Vegas to small town >>> North Dakota, and the lakes country of Minnesota. And every year I drag 3-4 >>> bikes along with us on a Saris rack. I’ve gone through several different >>> bikes in the past several years (the kids are growing, I switched to That >>> Clem Life, etc) so I’ve never found an exact formula to make the bikes fit >>> perfectly. This year I hauled my new loooonnnnngggg 52 cm Clementine (2019 >>> geo), the old 1st gen 52 cm blue Clem H, #theClemRider’s little 45 cm 2018 >>> Clem H, and Baby Bear’s 24 inch Specialized Hot Rock. >>> >>> I never regret bringing my bikes, but I do admit I lament that they come >>> back to Vegas in poorer condition than when they left. We always get caught >>> in a rainstorm at some point, and usually more than once. After that I >>> always notice creaking where there hadn’t been, rust on the heads of bolts >>> or inside the braze-ons. I usually have new scuffs from the bikes knocking >>> together on the rack, dirt and grit where I hadn’t had it before. One year >>> I drove to a shooting range on 20 miles’ worth of gravel roads and the >>> bikes were completely trashed at a level you can’t fathom. The Betty Foy >>> (now sold) had a permanent ugly mark on the top tube where the arm bar of >>> the rack had mashed the cable into the paint. >>> >>> You would think I would learn and get this dialed in but I never really >>> do. This year was really something - when was the last time you tried to >>> get 3 Rivendells with Bosco bars on a rack? Boscos don’t play nicely. Three >>> of 4 of the bikes had baskets, and all 4 had racks. Yeah, nightmare. >>> >>> So, this vacation I have discovered new ways to damage my bikes. I’ll >>> provide the photos and explanations in the next post... >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f5a9f90b-aecc-4185-9787-48d406486af1n%40googlegroups.com.
