Cycling2Live
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- Richmond, VA USA
Anyone have any experience using a soft sided bike bag, like the Scicon Aerocomfort, for airline travel?
Soft bag for airline travel
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steveindenmark
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Their are people on here who fly their bikes in plastic C2C bags. I have made my own bags out of very thin spinnaker cloth. Bike boxes and bags are as contencious as helmets. Some will say you need to pack them in hard cases and boxes as the bagage handlers abuse them.
Other, myself included, feel that if you pack the bike in something light the baggage handlers know they cant abuse them like a big hard box.
My reasoning may be total nonesense but luckily it has worked for me up to now.
Sorry if this doesnt specifically answer your question but you pack your bike in whatever you want and take your chance.
Other, myself included, feel that if you pack the bike in something light the baggage handlers know they cant abuse them like a big hard box.
My reasoning may be total nonesense but luckily it has worked for me up to now.
Sorry if this doesnt specifically answer your question but you pack your bike in whatever you want and take your chance.
The pithiest piece of advice I ever saw was 'imagine your bike bag is going to get thrown down a flight of stairs: and pack accordingly'.
I now very rarely fly with my bike, but when I did, I did things like using cable ties to stop things moving about, and took off the discs and chainset.
The Scicon bag looks pretty well thought-out in that there are lots of straps for holding things securely in place.
I now very rarely fly with my bike, but when I did, I did things like using cable ties to stop things moving about, and took off the discs and chainset.
The Scicon bag looks pretty well thought-out in that there are lots of straps for holding things securely in place.
Bodhbh
Guru
I've flown once with a dedicated soft sided bag, but mostly, maybe 10-15 times, with a CTC bag or just a plastic sheet duct taped up. From memory the soft bag needs a fair bit more dismantling - the wheels and bars have to come off. Also you're lumbered with quite a large lump of bag, which may or may not be a problem depending what you're plans are. I guess they do at least have some protection. Plastic bags/sheets have no protection but, as the argument goes, the handler can see what they're dealing with. I did come off a BA flight with the bike snapped at rear dropout tho, so breakages do happen...not that it'd stop me flying again or using a plastic sheet.
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- London
I don't know the bag the OP is contemplating but I'd check out the Ground Effect Tardis.
New Zealand company - with that info I assume you can find it with a quick google if interested/intrigued.
With additional packing.
It is excellent.
You can easily carry it with you on tour. Or some folks, with appropriately detailed "treasure map", conceal or bury it somewhere for retrieval just before flying back.
New Zealand company - with that info I assume you can find it with a quick google if interested/intrigued.
With additional packing.
It is excellent.
You can easily carry it with you on tour. Or some folks, with appropriately detailed "treasure map", conceal or bury it somewhere for retrieval just before flying back.
