Right, I’m going to do this then. Life is too short to be sensible and boring.
@alpin – this is just for a week, I’m not relocating!
Flights are likely to be with BA – as far as I can tell, they take a bike for free if it’s within your allowance (both are, though not together).
I’m going to use one of those CTC poly bags. That’s because part of my plan is to avoid hiring a car and use the bike instead, just so I don’t spend the entire week cooped up indoors.
But that means a conventional padded bag is no good – I’ll have nowhere to put it apart from possibly crazily expensive left luggage at the airport, so I would have to somehow get it with me from the airport/train station to/from the hotel.
That hill looks fine on a fixie, no worse than anything in Cambridgeshire :-). But I take the point. Geary MTB it is.
Bike hire seems to be amazingly expensive. A quick search showed I would be paying around $60/day.
So, I need to make sure I can get from the usual hotel to the office without being forced onto a freeway. A poly bag. And some good routes!