I've started rehashing some of my old material and it's getting published on a semi-regular basis over on 303 Triathlon. The first was a timely topic, Flying with Bikes. I'm mid way through planning for us to go do Sierra to the Sea bike tour again this year.


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 This is another of those livejournal entries, really written so it would show up in the right places on facebook, but might still be useful and found by people searching for details on taking the bikes on planes.

The folks over on twitter including the Statesmans Pamela Leblanc, my own friend Jack and Adams Bicycle shop all around good guy Drew ( Read more... )

AA introduced new charges for checked bags a while back. Their old table used to be very clear about when you pay for bikes and when you don't, For example, in the old days you ALWAYS paid $80 for a bike box each way, and could check two suitcases for free on domestic flights. Unless of course you weremizmizuno whose bike box looked like a normal size ( Read more... )

The old discussion of taking CO2 cartridges on the plane in your bike box has reared it's ugly head again. Here's my take ( Read more... )

So, despite some delays I made to St Petersburg for Sundays Sandkey Triathlon. It was a bit rushed getting checked in at Lagaudia after rushing up from JFK, but I had some time for a bit of fun ( Read more... )

[10 April '06: Here is a link[PDF} to a much longer article I wrote on this subject, it duplicates some but not all of this post.]Questions about travelling with bikes come up all the time. They are mostly about what you have to pay to ship your bike and the pro's and con's of bags versus boxes. I've written a couple of things in the last few days ( Read more... )