Tl;Dr: Use a Ikea Dimpla bag
This summer I’m going to France on a bike tour. We are taking our own bikes, or in my case borrowing a friends. Getting a bike on an airplane isn’t a huge issue – packing it in a cardboard box is pretty straight forward. Getting it on a TGV train is a different issue: it has to be in a non-cardboard carrier, or assembled. And if assembled it has to have a reserved spot.
What if I took a folding bike? A friend has a Brompton, and is willing to loan it. This is probably a crazy idea, but I am prone to those kind of ideas.
So: here is how to pack a brompton: https://jackbikes.org/packing-brompton/ using $14 of Ikea bags.
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