Originally Posted by
AvnerBen
I traveled the Elbe bike track and others with Brompton followed by Radical Design Chubby trailer on a variety of surfaces, and it was very comfortable.
The great thing about the Chubby trailer is that it can accommodate the folded Brompton plus some equiment (minus its self weight of 6kg), so may it also be used as a suitcase for air travel. The Chubby 3 had some stability problems. Radical design say that model 4 solves them, using the same frame as their excellent Cyclone trailer. I am seriously considering using a Chubby 4 trailer with our Helices for our summer trip, if they arrive on time .
Peter assured me that the folded Helix can sit in the Chubby 4 "with room to spare".
Did you actually try any air travel with Brompton inside or did actually just read assurances by the manufacturer?? Few years into Chubby being on the market I could not find any report of single air travel with Chubby carrying a Brompton not to say about any more extended experience. I bought the Chubby early on, just to find it significantly exceeding the manufacturer's claimed dimensions and the airline limits on standard checked-in luggage. To make it worse, its oblong shape was likely to invite a check-in agent to use a tape. Well familiar with the check-in dynamics, I decided not to risk the oversize/bike fees that I could not afford and decided to return the trailer. Radical Designs promised to look into trimming the size of their trailer, but to my knowledge nothing happened. They brought though the dimensions claimed on their website closer to reality and started warning customers about padding the bike when putting it into the trailer, suggesting that there were problems with the cloth tearing, if someone actually put the bike in. In the meantime I started using the Bike Friday trailer system that actually works with air travel and is not just claimed to do so.