Brompton as hand baggage on a plane?

[email hidden] wrote on 17/10/2006 10:59 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Dear All,

I'm going on holiday next week as was planning on trying to take my
Brompton bicycle.

I have checked the airline's baggage allowances, hand baggage can be up
to 10kg (the bike weighs slightly less than this) unfortunately it
doesn't fit within the dimensions of 500 x 350 x 230mm.

I will probably fit it into a case which can go in the hold.

I was just interested to see if anyone has taken a folding bike as hand
baggage or has any tips on packing a folding bike in their case?

There's a guy in California who regularly takes his Brompton as hand
luggage and there is a photo of one in the overhead locker at
http://www.paul.sladen.org/brompton/ripped/aeroplane-overhead-locker.jpg.

I somehow doubt you would get away with it in the UK at the moment. You
also need to be first on because you won't squeeze it into an already
half full locker.

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

[email hidden said:

"]Dear All,

I'm going on holiday next week as was planning on trying to take my
Brompton bicycle.

I have checked the airline's baggage allowances, hand baggage can be up
to 10kg (the bike weighs slightly less than this) unfortunately it
doesn't fit within the dimensions of 500 x 350 x 230mm.

I will probably fit it into a case which can go in the hold.

I was just interested to see if anyone has taken a folding bike as hand
baggage or has any tips on packing a folding bike in their case?

Cheers,

Nick

At teh moment flying from the UK, forget it! I've made a couple of flights in teh past month, and they really are taking the pi$$, still the security people can stop you getting where you want so you have no choice but to play their game.

Put it in a bag can check it in, it's the only way.

Bryan

Tony Raven said:

Quoted message said:

There's a guy in California who regularly takes his Brompton as hand
luggage and there is a photo of one in the overhead locker at
http://www.paul.sladen.org/brompton/ripped/aeroplane-overhead-locker.jpg.

Emmm... I see Paul Sladen quite often at UK Linux events.
I don't THINK he commutes via 747 - even with folding bike as hand
baggage. But yes, he is never more than six feet away from the trusty
Brompton.

Quoted message said:

Dear All,

I'm going on holiday next week as was planning on trying to take my
Brompton bicycle.

I have checked the airline's baggage allowances, hand baggage can be
up to 10kg (the bike weighs slightly less than this) unfortunately it
doesn't fit within the dimensions of 500 x 350 x 230mm.

Got titanium?

I'm jealous of a 10kg Brommie.

A

Thanks for that all!

You've no need to be jealous, it's a basic C type so perhaps weighs
less as it's got less add ons and I removed the bell. Either that or my
bathroom scales aren't that accurate!

Interesting to see it fitting in a locker, I was wandering what I could
remove to make it a smaller package, however if I strip it down too
much it kind of defeats the object of a folding bike!!

Cheers,

Nick

Quoted message said:

Thanks for that all!

You've no need to be jealous, it's a basic C type so perhaps weighs
less as it's got less add ons and I removed the bell. Either that or
my bathroom scales aren't that accurate!

Interesting to see it fitting in a locker, I was wandering what I
could remove to make it a smaller package, however if I strip it down
too much it kind of defeats the object of a folding bike!!

I thought they were a bit heavier than they were. I just weighed the T3 I
use* and it's 12.4 kg.

My day-to-day bike is 17kg all in (saddlebag, lock, etc.)

A

*read borrow from parents whenever needed.

No experiance as hand luggage but I have taken mine on hols to Italy a few
times and checked it in as hold luggage packed in it's original cardboard
box and no harm has come to it. LBS where you got it should be able to
supply the box FOC.

SW

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Quoted message said:

Dear All,

I'm going on holiday next week as was planning on trying to take my
Brompton bicycle.

I have checked the airline's baggage allowances, hand baggage can be up
to 10kg (the bike weighs slightly less than this) unfortunately it
doesn't fit within the dimensions of 500 x 350 x 230mm.

I will probably fit it into a case which can go in the hold.

I was just interested to see if anyone has taken a folding bike as hand
baggage or has any tips on packing a folding bike in their case?

Cheers,

Nick

Cheers for that Steve!

I know for a fact that my LBS has lots of boxes, so I could definitely
do that!

Regards,

Nick