travelling abroad light with bike ?

oldwelshman

See my attempt to travel light with added protection
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40003&t=12848113

pdstsp

That's brilliant - can you make me one?

oldwelshman

Took me ages lol sure it could be done quickly and cheaply by laser cut
I got myself a 2kg sub zero suitcase now so at least i can take some underpants and shorts

colsoop

Nice job. I may do something similar myself. Thanks for sharing.

Frank pole

What a brilliant idea! I want one!

tiredofwhiners

Super suggestion there. What is the physical dimension of the bag like that ?

Did you consider putting cutouts on the outside for the wheels or conclude that was too risky ?

oldwelshman

Due to the width of the rear drop outs it means I used total of four slabs of polystyrene.
Most of the frame was cut out to dept of just the inner slabs but at wider part of frame, reardropout and forks, oh and bars, had togo almost through all of the polyrtyrene.
So with this thickneddit was not possible to do simila cut out for wheels unfprtunately. This just fits in the soft bag and enough room to fit the wheels in the side pockets, shame really.
The bike bag is standard size,not measured it, it is planet X bag was £50 so with cost of all the bits and tape comes to about £100 but important this is weight for me.

oneof1982

What about the wheels?

oldwelshman

oneof1982 wrote:

What about the wheels?

:roll: see above, I put them in the side pockets of the bike bag,same as as always.

tiredofwhiners

When I was a lad, I am sure I can recall making a polystyrene cutter with a 9V battery and a copper wire strung between a couple of lollypop sticks - the idea being that the battery heated the wire just enough to cut polystyrene, but I am not sure if I remember that correctly.

oldwelshman

tiredofwhiners wrote:

When I was a lad, I am sure I can recall making a polystyrene cutter with a 9V battery and a copper wire strung between a couple of lollypop sticks - the idea being that the battery heated the wire just enough to cut polystyrene, but I am not sure if I remember that correctly.

Yes can be donebut that would be to cut right through,I just used long knife blade to cut few centimetres in. I have used a hot knifeto cut polystyrene before for other things but it stinks lol and dont think the fumes are particularly healthy

markyone

That is quality,well done.
Really like that paint job on your prince.