[Yak] Traveling by air with the BF

[John S. Allen]

At 11:35 AM 4/6/2009, Mike Kerber wrote:
>My wife and I took our new Fridays from Chicago to Wash. D. C. on Amtrak in
>the BF suit cases and it all worked great.  D.C. has lots a great paved
>trails and you can ride all over the mall and museum areas.   From past yaks
>I have seen that some people have had some bent cranksets when traveling by
>air.   I have ordered another set of crush protectors since we plan to do
>some travel by air later this year.    Will this be enough?   Am I just
>paranoid?   What have been the experiences of those that have traveled by
>air?

Double crush protectors aren't a bad idea in general, but the trouble 
that has been described isn't with bent cranks, it's a bent 
chainwheel where it bangs into the side of the Travelcase. Andrejs 
has been fortunate -- this happened to me with a 46-tooth chainring. 
Several suggestions have been made on this list, amounting either to 
removing the crank or making a spacer to keep the chainwheel away 
from the side of the case. Search the list and you will find the details.

John S. Allen

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