My habit is to cut foam pipe insulation to length, then wrap it with a T-shirt and then wrap Velcro straps around the T-shirts to hold them in place. Also good: foam pipe insulation, old T-shirts and velcro straps. Thule, BTW, has redesigned the RoundTrip and it looks like an even better product now than it was then, and I’m hoping to review it in the not-too-distant future. It has done incredibly well and on the one occasion when a bike was damaged, that happened when I’d loaned the case and the person I’d loaned it to didn’t remotely load the bike correctly, so I don’t really fault the airline in that instance. Honestly, with the Thule, I first traveled with it carrying a bike that wasn’t mine because I was concerned about its ability to keep the bike safe. More recently I’ve been using a Thule RoundTrip soft-sided case and have had terrific luck with it. I used to have a BikePro double-wide case-that is, one that held two bikes side by side, and I never once had a bike damaged while using it. I’ve seen hard cases destroyed in ways that only seemed possible if the case fell out of the plane while in flight. Soft-sided bike cases are very difficult to stack things on, so they generally set them aside and lay them on top of other suitcases. What I learned from a guy I rode with who is a baggage handler is that baggage handlers look for hard stuff to stack other things on. I have some mixed feelings about the S&S hard case, as I’ve seen one destroyed, but I’ve never seen a bike in one damaged. With one exception, all of the cases that were ever damaged enough to need repairs, or were outright destroyed, were hard cases. At this point, it’s more than 10, not including cardboard boxes. I once counted up all the different cases I’d reviewed over the years. Speaking of travel…site sponsor No22 Bicycles makes a pretty neat one.īut what about flying with? My first rule of flying with a bike is no hard cases.
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