i am looking for a flight bike case any recomendations

luigip1960

i am looking for a bike case to protect my bike for a flight to france

Chip \'oyler

This guy is supposed to be good

http://www.bikeboxalan.co.uk/

pinkbikini

looks just like the scicon one to me - so that gives you two choices if you shop around for best price

beetle1

Hi, i have the Scicon one and can't say enough good things about it and if you are travelling a lot its well worth it. A friend of mine uses the Elite one but it is fairly big and cumbersome some much so that the handle used to pull it along came off on its maiden voyage. He sent it back and decided to buy the Alanbikebox but its finish was absolutely awful. He actually got splinters in his hands from the finish inside it so it was despatched back immediately. Obviously he may have just had a 'bad' one but its not good enough really, i mean, what happened to quality control?

Scicon, everytime!

timbarnes

I've got the old chain reaction branded one of these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=23169

...all the online fellers sell a variation of it.

I added a shortened cardboard bike box (ie the boxes used to ship bikes to shops) which fits perfectly inside to produce a light, rigid bag.

It's done three transatlantic flights plus a flight to Lanzarote in the last year, my bike is still perfect.

cheers,

BigG67

I've one of these and while it's only been on one trip it worked really well.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/dhb_E ... 360041096/

Cheaper that Scicon but not quite as tough. Is big enough for an ISP if you need.

BIKEBOX LEE

I suggest you take a look at www.thebikeboxcompany.co.uk they do a superb hardcase for £130 we bought bought a couple of them last year and i have used it in about 6 flights and it is still going strong i notice it just won the best buy award in the triathalon 220 mag
at £130 its a hard case for not much more than a soft bag which wont give youre bike any protection fron the baggage handlers

sampras38

BIKEBOX LEE wrote:

I suggest you take a look at www.thebikeboxcompany.co.uk they do a superb hardcase for £130 we bought bought a couple of them last year and i have used it in about 6 flights and it is still going strong i notice it just won the best buy award in the triathalon 220 mag
at £130 its a hard case for not much more than a soft bag which wont give youre bike any protection fron the baggage handlers

I've just bought a DhB model from Wiggle for £151 which is pretty much identical to that.

Pretre

I bought a Polaris Bike Pod about 2 months ago & have travelled by air twice with it since then with no issues at all - & it's light.

ascurrell

timbarnes wrote:

I've got the old chain reaction branded one of these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=23169

...all the online fellers sell a variation of it.

I added a shortened cardboard bike box (ie the boxes used to ship bikes to shops) which fits perfectly inside to produce a light, rigid bag.

It's done three transatlantic flights plus a flight to Lanzarote in the last year, my bike is still perfect.

cheers,

Thats exactly what i did with some bubble wrap in strategic places, bought the bag off ebay for £30 including postage. Got the box from Halfords serves me well.

Philip S

ascurrell wrote:

Thats exactly what i did with some bubble wrap in strategic places, bought the bag off ebay for £30 including postage. Got the box from Halfords serves me well.

Is the protection good enough for a carbon bike? I'm looking to buy a bike/bag for trips to the continent and am a little nervous of putting my carbon bike in a bag. I think it should be okay, but have that nagging worry. I think I really just need some reassurance.