[Closed] Packing an Evoc bike bag

used to leave mech and rotors on, recent trip to India on the way in bent my front rotor.

decided going forwrd will remove rotors and mech as well now

Do it about once a month. Wheels off rotors off. Bike in stand bars off. Place in bag, seat down strap in old pillow case over bars. Arrange the rear block to protect mech, if it's too long undo the hanger (Cheers Curtis keene for the tip) as it keeps the mech set. Spacers on the brakes

Oh pedals off otherwise you can't get the wheels in right
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Cheers. Not worth risking a holiday for ten minutes extra of spannering.

old pillow case over bars

Damn it, that's a good idea! Thanks.

I tend to leave the mech on (it sits immobile in the most heavily-reinforced section of the bag) and the rotors also (on the basis that a stripped rotor-bolt head is a complete bugger to sort out, so I leave them alone and also that Evoc reckon it's fine).

Not had problems, but there's all sorts of possibilities for problems.

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Pedals off, discs off and rear mech off. Handlebars removed from the stem and velcroed in the bit for them at the side of the bike and the dropper seatpost dropped. I think that's about it. I have a clicky torque thing for putting it back together and have never stripped a rotor bolt but paranoia means I take a spare disc and bolts. I think I just follow the Evoc instructions

I have had disc rotors scratch my shock 🙁 not in an evoc bag but a more primitive one. So if you have the tools, skills and patience yes remove them. I also buggered by rear cable but that was me being a numpty. Hence I prefer to drive

After recently having my frame chainstay/seatstay bent inwards, I would recommend getting a spacer tube or block of wood with axle through it for rear+front axles.
I take bars off and put pipe lagging around them/ziptie them to top tube.
Remove mech (ziptie to frame with cable still in it), remove pedals, sometimes remove rotors (although havent recently)

I would recommend getting a spacer tube or block of wood with axle through it for rear+front axles

Good point. I have some rolled up corrugated cardboard spacers I made to fit over the axles to space the fork legs and rear triangle

Already sorted some alu tubing as axle spacers.

Remove mech (ziptie to frame with cable still in it)

This is how iI buggered mine, imo you need to remove the tension on the cable and re-tension/adjust the mech when you put the bike together.

I would also secnd cable ties for bars etc, I used duct tape and the glue residue took ages to get off and attracts mud / dust brilliantly

@onza my 2 cents would be that wood will do less damage to your frame/forks than alu

The design of the evoc puts the chain stays and fork axle at on the rigid floor of the bag. So I'd go with impossible to squash.
As. For zip tie on the bars etc have you lot seen a evoc bag? Its designed for doing this it's got nice Velcro straps in all the right places so no need for the half arsed solutions.

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As per the pic, rotors generally sit where the pedals are, pedals will fit in the zip pocket on the left, a few zip loc bags for random bolts etc. in that config nothing can move and rub, noting bounces around.

Handy tip - take stem and bars off and pack steerer with spare spacers. Saves faffing getting bars right when refitting.

Dave, I do the same so I don't have to mess with carbon paste for the bars.

What are people doing with tubeless tyres? Letting some air out but leaving seated on the rim?

Let my road tyres down to about 20psi

I pump up tyres back up for the flight. 35 psi might help stop nasty things from happening to my wheels.