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okay travelling with bike on worldwide tour update:
So far I've been London to Tokyo, Tokyo to Melbourne, Melbourne to Sydney.
The first bike bag a cheap £40 cinelli branded one from Evans, was utter shite, too big, cheap traps, which broke (when I admittedly overloaded it), before I got to heathrow. So muttered under breath and got on with it.
Bought a foldable luggage trolley to wheel bag on, which has proved invaluable in lugging it around airports, to and from airports and to my hostels.
Fortunately got this lovely bike bag from Jol, which is so much better its unbelievable, will have some photos up on the blog, when I can get to an internet cafe and upload them.
http://www.groundeffect.co.nz/product-detail-TAR-BAG.htm
Weight wise, I've been alot over London to Tokyo, and paid the excess think it was like £30. Inexperienced packing. Then so far I've been right on the edge of my round the world ticket luggage allowance, two bags at 23kg, per bag. I've been a couple of hundred grams over and they've just swiped it through.
Flown so far with BA and Qantas, and will be flying with American when I hit the states...