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Old 03-29-23, 03:47 PM
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VegasTriker's suggestion about buying the inexpensive 6 foot lengths of foam pipe insulation from LOWES/HOME DEPOT in order to protect the bike's paint and frame tubing is a great suggestion. You can then also use those inexpensive and very common swimming pool noodles that you'll see everywhere from May thru August in discount stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar, Wal-mart, Target, Ace Hardware, and even LIDL's , Kroger, Publix, and Walgreens.

If it is a prized possession, you will want to "mummy-fi" and wrap it up completely with taped up foam pipe insulation & swimmy noodles.
You wanna wrap it up like King Tut.
Remember what Sam & Dave, and also The Fabulous Thunderbirds sang: "Wrap, wrap wrap it up......" - before the maniac mover-destroyers take it.
Another advantage of wrap, wrap rap pin it up is that the very unskilled, low hourly wage earners of the movers' crew and warehouse cannot immediately visually determine that said bicycle can be immediately sold for quick cash to obtain drugs to fuel their habit or to obtain a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 to keep them in their usual alcoholic haze.
Yeah, Bubba on the mover's crew or as part of the warehouse team will undoubtedly know that it is a bicycle that someone values since it is all taped wrapped with pipe insulation/noodles, but Bubba isn't likely gonna take the 43 minutes that it might take him to unwrap/unmummy-fi it. Just too much wrapping stuff to dispose of and just too many minutes of working to get it unwrapped and then stealthy sneaking it into his Ford Econoline van or into his Ford F150 pickup truck covering it with a ratty blanket. Somebody might see Bubba doing that, and though Bubba knows where to walk there--park there at work , to elude the range of what the security cameras
capture, he knows that most of the others there working at the warehouse are uncool who frown upon and will report, prosecute and fire any employees who are caught stealing.
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