I will be using an S&S coupled bike for touring; most of the trips will be point A to point B, say Milan to Venice via the Lake country, Switzerland, and Austria. Since I will be ending at points removed some distance from the point of origin I had thought of using the soft (backpack) case which can be squeezed down and strapped to a rack. I am getting some pushback from friends who think the soft case does not afford sufficient protection from airport baggage handlers. So.....
Anyone have experience travelling on airlines with the backpack case? Any issue with protection for the bike? On the flip side, anyone travel with the hard case and forward it ahead to an endpoint? What would be the best way to do so?
For some time I've been collecting information on user experiences taking bikes on planes, trains, buses, boats, etc. There's lots of stuff on rentals, folding bikes, boxing, airlines, and railroads around the world and how to ride in/out of about 120 airports.
There are about 10-12 items on S&S and many say that the soft case works very well.
I will be using an S&S coupled bike for touring; most of the trips will be point A to point B, say Milan to Venice via the Lake country, Switzerland, and Austria. Since I will be ending at points removed some distance from the point of origin I had thought of using the soft (backpack) case which can be squeezed down and strapped to a rack. I am getting some pushback from friends who think the soft case does not afford sufficient protection from airport baggage handlers. So.....
Anyone have experience travelling on airlines with the backpack case? Any issue with protection for the bike? On the flip side, anyone travel with the hard case and forward it ahead to an endpoint? What would be the best way to do so?
In September my husband and our brought our tandem to France, and after touring, back to California via Air France, with S&S soft cases. We had absolutely no problems with the S&S cases keeping the bikes unscratched. Two other tandems on our tour also used the soft cases, and did a bit of more protective packing than we did. (They put foam pads in the outside pockets of the cases, we left them empty.) They also had no trouble. Good luck.
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For some time I've been collecting information on user experiences taking bikes on planes, trains, buses, boats, etc. There's lots of stuff on rentals, folding bikes, boxing, airlines, and railroads around the world and how to ride in/out of about 120 airports.
There are about 10-12 items on S&S and many say that the soft case works very well.
