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From Achim Dunker: I am not a fan of folding bikes, but at the German ICE- Train it is not possible to travel with a normal bike. So made a transport bag for the singlespeed. It takes five minutes to dismantle and relaxed ten minutes to fix it.
From Achim Dunker: I am not a fan of folding bikes, but at the German ICE- Train it is not possible to travel with a normal bike. So made a transport bag for the singlespeed. It takes five minutes to dismantle and relaxed ten minutes to fix it.
Or you can just buy a normal bike bag, remove wheels, turn handle bars, slam seat down, take off just the pedals. I’ve done this on ICE trains a fair bit and no one’s ever asked a question.
5 minutes my ass. Looks like it took him at least 20 in the video. Removing both crank arms? Come on. Now you need to carry around a heavy ass crank arm remover.
Anyway, it looks a lot like the Tardis bag by Ground Effect.
And actually, Sugino self-extracting crank bolts do kind of lessen the heavy ass wrench and complicated removal pain.
Or you could just get a folding bike. Seriously, this isn’t really a solution unless you’re stubborn about using only one type of bike. There are solutions to the multi-modal commute problem that don’t involve this level of hassle and pain.
Love my S&S coupler surly. I love being able to stash it in the trunk of a car rather quickly.
Especially when traveling with a rental car / taxi.
It Might even pass on a bus, ferry or train that otherwise wouldn’t take bikes.
It takes more effort (half hour) to get it packed in the flight case but I haven’t had to take the cranks off.
If I really needed a folder for regular commuting I wouldn’t hesitate. Except deciding which model!
Plus, you could simply take off the pedals. That’s what I’ve done when travelling, then turn the stem, flip down bars, no need to take all that off.