"David Hill" wrote in message
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Hello.

My wife and I are travelling to SE Asia this December for
a three-week tour.
We are taking our old mountain bikes turned commuter bikes
(beat up looking,
but great shape mechanically). We can either borrow a
bike box from a
friend and have to deal with storing it on the other end,
or we can, as I've
heard from some people, simply check the bikes assembled,
with no boxes.

I'm curious to hear from people who have taken the latter
route. We don't
really care about scratches, etc., (10 year old frames),
but we don't want
to arrive and find our bikes with lots of broken spokes
and the like.

Thanks,
D. Hill.



Check with the airline you're using. American Airlines (and
I assume others too) will take a bike as checked baggage and
have a choice of a plastic bike bag for US$10 or a cardboard
bike box for US$20. You'll probably need to turn the bars
and take off the pedals, so take along the appropriate tools
for the return trip.