In the next 4 weeks I’ll be packing up the bike and travelling over to the alps by plane. I’ve got a bike bag which I intend to line with cardboard, wrap the frame and components in bubble wrap and pipe lagging. Remove rear mech and bars, etc, etc.

My main concern is that I keep reading that the airlines expect you to deflate your tyres. Is this true? I spent many an hour effing and jeffing setting up my hr/larsen combo on stans flow rims tubeless and don’t fancy doing this at the start of my hols.

If so what have others done when travelling by plane and running tubeless?

left my tires hard – put pipe laging on the frame , removed the rear mech zip tied it into the frame , removed pedals , took stem off and zip tied the bars to the top tube …. chucked it in a bike bag with a wheel on either side with the rotors facing in the way

when they eventually got to me it was in the same condition i sent them …

cheers tr, I’ve got wheels bags but putting the rotors facing inwards is a good idea