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| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
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| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
2247.0. "Bike Bag a rip off?" by GALVIA::STEPHENS (Hills are just flats at an angle) Mon Apr 20 1992 15:52
Having read various notes about bags used for transporting bicycles on
aeroplanes, I asked in bike shop in Dublin (Ireland), and was quoted 60
punts (thats about $90, or 50 pounds sterling) for a totally unpadded
bag.
Is this a total rip-off, or just the going rate (with allowances for
that fact that's it's inevitably going to be cheaper in the US, as with
most cycling equipment)?
Patrick
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| 2247.1 | seems a little high | SHALOT::ELLIS | John Lee Ellis - assembly required | Mon Apr 20 1992 16:06 | 13 |
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It's hard to say if it's competitive. Of course $90 seems exhorbitant
for an unpadded bag. Padded bags with bike supports (securing the
front fork and bottom bracket) in the US run $180-$200. Not cheap
but worth it. The hard shells are more expensive (and unwieldier).
The unpadded "fold up into a stuff sack" (the size of a Thermos)
Japanese bike-bags were not cheap - about $50, as I best recall -
but de rigueur for using the trains. Too bad you can't just spring
for a US-type padded bag.
Good luck.
-john
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