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  • £7 well spent – Bike on tube
  • RV
    Free Member

    I was guiding a charity ride from London to Brussels via Amsterdam for Action Medical Research and was a little concerned about getting my bike back on the tube to an over rail station. As there was a SKY ride on the same day the Tube gestapo were everywhere looking for bikes and I thought I’d got away with it other than being grabbed at the last moment by a jobsworth. He informed me that I couldn’t take a bike on the tube other than certain lines and they were all closed for maintainance. I asked if i coudl put it in a bag and if that would make a difference but he smugly said i’d not get it in my duffle bag. I then produced my £7 CTC polly bag and rolled it in. by this time his mates had come over and they all agreed that it was now in a bag. So thanks CTC, you saved me an epic journey home, after an already epic 5 days on the bike.

    Posted 12 years ago
    binners
    Full Member

    Brilliant!!! 😆

    Posted 12 years ago
    philconsequence
    Free Member

    :mrgreen:

    i would’ve given you a hearty round of applause if i was nearby 😀

    Posted 12 years ago
    carbon337
    Free Member

    i would’ve given you a hearty round of applause if i was nearby +1

    Posted 12 years ago
    aracer
    Free Member

    Like

    Posted 12 years ago
    PeterPoddy
    Free Member

    Total genius!

    I’d have paid that to see the look on his face!

    Posted 12 years ago
    bigyinn
    Free Member

    EAT MY BAG TFL!!!

    Posted 12 years ago
    PiknMix
    Free Member

    its the little victories that are the sweetest

    Posted 12 years ago
    Wozza
    Free Member

    WIN.

    Posted 12 years ago
    sofatester
    Free Member

    RV 1 – 0 TFL

    Posted 12 years ago
    stumpy01
    Full Member

    Nice one……!!

    Posted 12 years ago
    hainman
    Free Member

    Touché

    Posted 12 years ago
    RV
    Free Member

    I was very pleased with myself…. Got lots of looks off people on the escalators wit a bike.

    Posted 12 years ago
    Edric64
    Free Member

    Brilliant ,wouldnt trust it to baggage handlers at Heathrow though

    Posted 12 years ago
    Orange-Crush
    Free Member

    It certainly seems to be taking up much less room now it’s in that bag. What a nonsense.

    Posted 12 years ago
    TuckerUK
    Free Member

    More to the point, why isn’t the midget sentry in his sentry box?

    Posted 12 years ago
    lipseal
    Free Member

    Brill 😛
    £7.99 now.

    Posted 12 years ago
    franksinatra
    Full Member

    great stuff, stick it to da man!

    Get yourself down to your local bed and mattress emporium and ask for a mattress bag and you could save yourself £7.99!

    Posted 12 years ago
    alpin
    Free Member

    it’s a road bike….. -1, you nazi.

    Posted 12 years ago
    MrSynthpop
    Free Member

    Nice – I’ve got a black bag like that for when i take the bike on train journeys – just put it in a a bag and lean it in the luggage area, suddenly the guard takes no notice of it, even works on Cross-County (where they will chuck you off even if you have bike reservation if the guard is in a bad mood).

    Posted 12 years ago
    TiRed
    Full Member

    Technically, that train isn’t in a “Tube” – it’s circle/district/metropolitan line, so there is a lot more discretion as it’s not deep underground. I’d like to see you get that on the Piccadilly line 😉

    Posted 12 years ago
    cynic-al
    Free Member

    I got one free at a BA desk after shiteyjet refused to let my bike on.

    Should have got a pic of the twaty guard.

    Posted 12 years ago
    aP
    Free Member

    As djaustin says that’s circle/hammermith & city line so only sub-surface railway – and mostly surface. You’d have run the risk of being arrested if you’d tried that on the Picc Line in central London.
    Those rules are there for a reason.

    Posted 12 years ago
    SamB
    Free Member

    I dunno, looks like a Picaddily line train to me. Does seem a bit odd that there are rules for “no bikes” but nothing for “no massively oversized bags” though 🙂

    Posted 12 years ago
    StefMcDef
    Free Member

    Blue handrails = Picadilly line, no? Has that changed since my days in Londinium when the livery of the carriages corresponded roughly to the line you were on?

    Posted 12 years ago
    RV
    Free Member

    Technically, that train isn’t in a “Tube” – it’s circle/district/metropolitan line, so there is a lot more discretion as it’s not deep underground. I’d like to see you get that on the Piccadilly line

    Actually it was the Piccadilly line to Holborn as the other lines to Liverpool St, that you can take bikes on during certain hours were closed for engineering works.

    Posted 12 years ago
    TiRed
    Full Member

    In that case I’m impressed. How about the Northern line then? They’re always miserable!

    Posted 12 years ago
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