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Upstart South African company BikeBox wants you to fly with your bike. But it doesn’t think you need an expensive case to do so, and instead is proposing that you use a more basic vessel made of corrugated plastic.
The concept of using a corrugated plastic box instead of a cardboard one for transporting your bike is hardly new. BikeFlights currently sells one for a couple hundred bucks, for example, and another company called CrateWorks offered something similar before they went under in 2013.
Either way, the idea is the same: corrugated plastic (or Coroplast, as it is also often called) is tougher and more weather-resistant than conventional corrugated cardboard, it’s reusable (to a degree), it folds down flat for easy storage when not in use, and the boxes are generally a lot cheaper than dedicated hard-sided or soft-shell cases.
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