warning airlines are not resposible for any damage to your bike. pad your bike box well! when i moved to Mexico i brought my bike with me boxed by a bike shop and the chaingard was bent and the front break basicly smashed off by the time it got to me. i did avoid the $100 surcharge at pearson. the guy working the ticket desk was a downhiller and said he doesnt charge people for traveling with bikes out of principle.

the cost of fixing my bike when i got to mexico and found the local bike shop was less then 10$ the labour down there was dirt cheap. odly enough that was when i starte riding brakeless cause my poor spanish at the time i couldnt understand why the guy just took my broken break off and tuned up the bike and told me to take it to the velodrome... i thought he was messing with the white kid and just sucked it up and took it easy on the road. 2 weeks before i was leaving i took the bike there to get boxed and my spanish was way better so i was able to get them to pad the hell out of it and also find out that the little city i was living in LaPaz has a velodrome...