Originally Posted by Morelock

Good lord that's a piece of luggage although it does fit all 4 wheels nicely it looks like.

I have 0 experience flying with my bike, my thoughts on softshell cases are founded by no evidence... I know every time I travel out of the US and bring back bottles of whisky I have nightmares of the baggage guy just chucking it as hard as he can against something and then getting home with shards of glass and expensive bourbon smelling pants.

As expensive as this trip is going to be, I just don't want to take ANY chances of being that 1 in whatever chance of getting to a foreign country trying to source replacement parts of a pretty rare bike. May be unfounded fear though.