bike case rant:
I had one that was built like a **** tank (and weighed approximately the same.
Still it was gradually ruined by the US security service (TSA?) at LAX and SFO airports. Took them a few goes but in the end I had to get rid. They insist on opening all items that can’t fit their x-ray machine but they’re utterly shit at repacking them. Oh no sir, they won’t let you see it happening and no way can you talk sensibly to them*.
So then the case goes through handling with the catches wide open, ready to snap off. Course, they put a single run of thin tape round it (I say “round” though it’s presumably too expensive to go right round, so they just do it like a steristrip across the join at a couple of points). Magically the bike hasn’t had major damage but the case is missing all but 1 original clasp and is now split. The presence of the official tape means that airlines can say that you go to TSA for damages (yeah right)
End result; bigger bike case that should be easier for a chimp to repack (though still the patronising **** failed last time 🙄 )
*I say that – one woman said that I wasn’t allowed to touch it but I could watch her close it up. She couldn’t but she didn’t have an ego problem and so let me come & close it (maybe it was all a ruse and she just wanted to frisk me all along).
(and I think the perfect case shape would have non-stackably irregular profile across its “flat” sides)