Always always always travel with a hard case bike bag 👍 👍 Seen 3 or 4 bikes arrive here and other places in that exact same bag all with cracked seat stays, guy travelling from Australia coming here to race had to lend him my Cervelo so he could race. Another friend travelling from Canada to Italy exact same seat stay cracks. With the price of bikes these days crazy not to fork out a bit more to protect your bike properly IMHO. Hope it arrived home in one piece 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thanks for sharing your experience! This customer never had a problem with his bike/bag in 7 years... Hope it's not just luck :) I would say 50% of our customers come with hard cases (mostly Bike Box Alan), but also never had any problem with the soft cases on our trips, knock on wood!
The problem with that bag is that it doesn't protect the bars/shifters/wheels/frame from side impact. There's a brand (based out of Columbia of all places) called TripTico that do a similar bag but fully protect the bike frame/bars/wheels from side impact with spacer bars. I actually travel with a hard sided (corflute) box on roller-casters that I have made an internal aluminium frame and axle mounts for -it fits the bike, two sets of wheels, tools and all riding clothing etc (packed complete with everything is just under 32kg so within the weight rules). My preference getting to Chiang Mai is Thai Lion Air and Scoot as neither charge an oversized luggage handling fee. Keep up the videos as I enjoy seeing northern Thailand rides when I'm not there.
I would never use that kind of bag. I've got a soft bag, but both sides, the front and rear, have inflatable sacks that I pump up, and when inflated they create a high pressure balloon around the entire bike, and if you press on the outside you just bounce off. Ive used it going to Europe with zero issues.
Always always always travel with a hard case bike bag 👍 👍 Seen 3 or 4 bikes arrive here and other places in that exact same bag all with cracked seat stays, guy travelling from Australia coming here to race had to lend him my Cervelo so he could race. Another friend travelling from Canada to Italy exact same seat stay cracks. With the price of bikes these days crazy not to fork out a bit more to protect your bike properly IMHO. Hope it arrived home in one piece 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thanks for sharing your experience! This customer never had a problem with his bike/bag in 7 years... Hope it's not just luck :)
I would say 50% of our customers come with hard cases (mostly Bike Box Alan), but also never had any problem with the soft cases on our trips, knock on wood!
The problem with that bag is that it doesn't protect the bars/shifters/wheels/frame from side impact. There's a brand (based out of Columbia of all places) called TripTico that do a similar bag but fully protect the bike frame/bars/wheels from side impact with spacer bars. I actually travel with a hard sided (corflute) box on roller-casters that I have made an internal aluminium frame and axle mounts for -it fits the bike, two sets of wheels, tools and all riding clothing etc (packed complete with everything is just under 32kg so within the weight rules). My preference getting to Chiang Mai is Thai Lion Air and Scoot as neither charge an oversized luggage handling fee. Keep up the videos as I enjoy seeing northern Thailand rides when I'm not there.
Thanks very much for your insightful comment and tips!
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36t on the cassette for the 8% hills of Thailand?
Last week we saw a couple of signs with 14% and 18%, took some photos for you... 😂
@@CyclingChiangMai seeing is believing my friend, seeing is believing.
I would never use that kind of bag. I've got a soft bag, but both sides, the front and rear, have inflatable sacks that I pump up, and when inflated they create a high pressure balloon around the entire bike, and if you press on the outside you just bounce off. Ive used it going to Europe with zero issues.
which bag do you use?
@anxietywithin The Biknd Helium case
very interesting, thanks for the tip!!! 🙏🙏🙏