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Arthur Mayo knew there was a problem.
For the past few years, Mayo had been competing as an age-group triathlete. While traveling throughout the US and Europe for events, he kept hearing riders complain about the same problem - transporting their bikes. There was no shortage of road bike cases on the market, but the options were either too expensive, too flimsy (to provide ample protection), too bulky and/or heavy to ship via Fed-Ex or DHL or required too much bike disassembly.
As Mayo started brainstorming potential solutions for this problem, one thought kept popping into his head: rock ‘n roll. Years before there was a bike box, he worked in touring production. “I was on the road with bands from Metallica to The Who, Genesis to Madonna and The Offspring to Korn, in roles from lighting tech, carpenter and stage manager to master electrician,” he explains. “You learn quickly that if the road cases are not built well the contents will get destroyed in a couple of weeks inside 53-foot semi trailers bouncing down the road at 75 mph.” So he asked himself the obvious question: “Why don’t I design a road case for bikes similar to the road cases expensive equipment are packed in for touring productions?”
After months of product research, athlete interviews, 3D prototyping, and extensive testing, the first Vault Sports Box was borne. It’s a revolutionary marriage of innovation and design at a reasonable price point. “Elite athletes, casual riders, and basically anyone going on a biking holiday can use it,” says VSB’s founder. The reason is simple. “Is it better than anything else on the road? Absolutely.”
Jeremy Oury, co-founder.
Jeremy Oury grew up in a triathlon household in San Diego. His father was a Navy physician who ran with the guys who started the sport in Mission Bay in 1974 - he dragged his family around the world during triathlon’s early days. During Jeremy’s time in architecture school and while playing soccer at University of Southern California, he did his first multisport race at the USC Olympic Pool, 1984.
After moving his architecture practice to Montana in 1994, Jeremy’s triathlon life took a big jump when he fell in with the University of Montana Triathlon Club, and Team Stampede’s burgeoning pro and elite triathletes. As of 2026 he has completed 800+ multisport, cycling, running, swimming, and non-traditional races, including seven Ironmans, 30 70.3’s, 38 Team USA World Championships, over 100 National Championship races, and millions of miles of training in the Montana mountains around Whitefish, MT, where he lives with his yogi wife Jodi Petlin. A 30-time USA Triathlon All American, he still races 20 times a year, and always makes it to Nationals and Worlds in several disciplines.
Jeremy has traveled and raced in 30 countries and all 50 states, and has owned no less than 20 bike cases (and probably 100 bikes) in his 40 year racing career. A self-professed non-mechanic, he was instrumental in providing his friend Arthur Mayo with real-life bike travel feedback, which focused on ease of use and bike break-down/packing, and a nod to the aesthetics of “what people want to see in a travel case, and how they see themselves using it.”