• any advice for getting a boxed bike from new cross to stansted airport on fri sep 13th?
    uber xl is eye wateringly expensive, and there's no coach that goes from down this way (that i can see)
    this is the part i hate most about bikepacking trips!

  • I've not travelled with a bike for years, but I've ridden to the airport before and handed the bike over as is.

    I think there are two schools of thought to flying with a bike:

    1. Protect it with a bike box and hope nothing gets damaged in transit, or;
    2. Keep it as bike like as possible and hope the baggage handlers treat it with a modicum of respect
  • handed the bike over as is.

    I've heard of that method but no fucking way.

    You still need to take off pedals and flip bars and shit, right?

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