Old 07-21-22 | 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Symox
It was glorious to have my bike in a new vacation location.
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The very first time my wife and I flew with our own bikes -- this was back in 2010, when we went to Markleeville CA to do the Death Ride -- we learned two very important lessons:

1) it is so much nicer to ride your own bike than to ride a rented or borrowed bike when on vacation! That familiarity/comfort infuses every ride, and impacts your overall impressions of any cycling vacation.

But also...

2) It is so much nicer to have a manageable compact case for travelling with your own bike when on vacation! That first Death Ride trip was a comedy of errors since we were travelling with two enormous hard cases...dealing with oversized baggage check-in and retrieval at the airport, finding a taxi that could get us to the airport in the first place, discovering that the rental car we'd reserved at our destination wasn't large enough to accomodate these two enormous hard cases (and making that discovery at 1:00AM local time!), figuring out where to store these two enormous hard cases during our stay... We got home from that vacation and immediately started investigating new bikes that had S&S couplers. Now that is a gamechanger.

Glad you and your bike arrived intact, enjoy Hawaii!
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