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Hi All
Looking to book an uplift at Inners, i have heard however that bikes can sustain damage when being transported, as my bike is only a few weeks old and we're still in "honey-moon" period what precautions should i take to avoid inflicting any unnecessary damage?
Cheers
Nick
MTFU or **** off
a) cycle up the hill
b) go somewhere else
Seriously, if you stack a pile of bikes together - with all those pointy-out bits - then you're not really gonna be able to prevent some light scratching (at least). I assume it's a DH bike, in which case it'll pretty soon be looking a bit rough and tatty anyway 🙂
lol - harsh but perhaps fair
wrap inner tubes round EVERYTHING...and watch out for other folks flat pedal pins rubbing in the middle of your frame.
They did do their best with mine since it's a tarty 5 incher not a manly smashed up dh bike but it still picked up a few decent scratches. But you don't buy an axe then worry about it getting blunt when you use it.
(there was a wee lad with an islabikes thing on that last one, just doing caddon bank with his dad all day, and they really looked after that for him, very cool of them)
bubble wrap the whole bike 😀
Get it laminated maybe
It's not a bad uplift for damage compared to some. Stack carefully watching where pedals are and make sure the bike 2 after yours doesn't have it's brake lever on your top tube.
The simplest protection is to wrap tube around the fork lowers, top tube and rear triangle bits if you're really worried.
pipe insulation for stanchions and that should see you good - see dh bikes for sale with "usual uplift marks"
That helicopter tape stuff?
GW - Member
MTFU or **** off
druidh - Member
a) cycle up the hill
b) go somewhere else
Really never had much bother on uplift
Last time I was there the guys loaded the bikes for you and always did a good job, unlike many numpty punters. Other than that use heli-tape, but dont expect miracles.
Put the bike on the coach and you in the cattle truck
will bike not get all dented and scratched with falling off a lot ❓ 😉
Put the bike on the coach and you in the cattle truck
is this Up lift Scotland?
They also do Ae
They use a trailer [at Ae] and there is a big gap between bikes more likely to dmage it crasghing no real risk of damage on transporter morte likely to srcratch it getting it there