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What's the best strong, light, cheap bike bag around. Can't see any on Planet X.
I've got one of these from Rutland cycles last year, just wanted a cheap one for travel on a long trip in the car but actually it's pretty good. Padding and rigidity is good for the money, but of cardboard to help pack it and I'd probably fly with it.. Maybe!
Thanks, I'll take a look
What do you want it for? For flying you want a rigid base and preferably separate wheel pockets (or buy some wheel bags)
We've booked the train to ventoux but now realise the bikes need to be bagged up.
I do have some wheel bags.
Probably get away with it a bit easier than flying then, probably wouldn't trust that one with heavy handed baggage handlers without a lot of extra packing.
Some places do hire decent bags so worth a look, much much easier to pack and move around
If you have 26in wheels - this [url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/brand-x-eva-bike-pod-2016/rp-prod134710 ]bag[/url]
2 trips to Spain this year and has been perfect
Semi-hard case so nicely protects the bike but also really light to keep you under the baggage restrictions. Also cheap so covers all bases.
There is an art to getting a full suspension long travel bike in there - but once you master it it takes less than 30 mins. I have traveled with all my other stuff in this bag and just hand luggage.
Just get a cardboard bike box from your local bike shop (the containers new bikes come in).
Cheap bike bags don't offer that much protection. I have one of the Planet X ones and I've taken it on a plane twice, but each time I had to strip the bike wrap the frame with bubble wrap.
I've also used a cardboard bike box and only had to remove the front wheel and bars. Much more solid and secure, and best of all free!
Ok thanks.
If you're carrying the bike bag yourself, then you don't want to be humping a great big box onto a train - CRC doing a soft bag for 63 quid. I've used this type of bag frequently for flying / trains.
Assume this isn't the Summer Eurostar service direct to Avignon in about 6hrs? No non folding bikes at all, helpfully. Just some eye-wateringly expensive 3rd party courier offering.
No, but we do come back direct. The outward includes a long lunch in Paris, changing from Eurostar to TGV. We had this romantic idea we would be swanning around Paris on bikes, lunching and sipping fine wine before riding to the station.
Not possible with bike bags obvs.
Maybe hire bikes when we get there.