Bike Box Guides

You may not have used or hired a bike box before so we’ve written up some some useful information guides to help you plan your trip and travel with your bike with ease.

Packing Information

You will be amazed at how easy and quick it is pack a bike box in comparison to soft bike bags. You don’t have to dismantle your bike as much and you don’t have to spend time with 'fiddly' packaging materials. Road Bikes This video shows Sam packing a road bike into our Velovault1 bike box....

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Which box for me?

Our boxes offer great safety for your bike, there are slight advantages on all bike boxes, so our guide should allow you to make an informed decision. At the majority of our hire hubs we mainly stock Velovault, but some hubs do stock the following rigid bike boxes for hire as well: Polaris Bike Pod...

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Will my bike fit in a bike box?

One of the most important questions that we’re asked is ‘will my bike fit in a bike box?’ The Velovault bike box has the largest internal space of any lightweight rigid box available so we’ve used it in this short video to demonstrate the crucial measurements to determine if your bike will fit into the...

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Why Use a Hard Bike Box?

Pro XTERRA triathlete Sam Gardner tells us why choosing a good-quality rigid bike box could pay dividends Sam showing off his 40 year old muscles Not all bike cases are created equal: a lesson I learned several seasons ago when I decided to try a bike bag for the first time. The bike bag I...

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