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02-09.-2007, 12:38 AM
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Re: Bikes still free on International flight (United)
Mike Jacoubowsky writes
> Just got back from France with my son & two bikes. On United, at > least for now, bikes are still shipped at no charge as part of your > baggage shipment. International only. $85 each way, last I heard, > for US flights. Airlines seem to have taken an anti bicycle stance with a limit of L+W+H=62" that barely allows a Dahon folding bicycle. Most airlines are charging between $85 and $100 for anything over 62" but Air Canada charged $43 (equivalent) so that was my choice this year. Last year Continental was already charging $80 each way. To make up for that, the airport baggage mashers broke off the rear derailleur cable anchor (braze-on) and broke off one of my valve stems at the base... inside a closed bag. These guys are resourceful. Fortunately my frame builder friend Fredy Rüegg could help me out and I had a spare tube. Other than that, no mechanicals during a 2500km ride through the Alps. To make up for that, we both got food poisoning on the Galibier, probably from pasta alla carbonara in Valloire, after which we had the runs for two days before heading up the Col d'Iseran and on to storm the Col de la Seigne (2616m) and the Col Ferret (2537m) from Bourg St. Maurice to Martigny (CH). http://www.roberts-1.com/t/b06/ch/k/d/index.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/fpoulin/940467598/ Trip report later. Jobst Brandt |
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02-09.-2007, 05:20 AM
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Re: Bikes still free on International flight (United)
On 1 Set, 17:38, jobst.bra...@stanfordalumni.org wrote:
, we both got food poisoning on the Galibier, > probably from pasta alla carbonara in Valloire, Well done, if so. Never ask for Italian food outside our sacred borders. Instead, last year when I stopped at Bonneval sur Arc I had to be satisfied with an improvised TV dinner. No problem over Iseran and Le Petit S.t Bernard on the following day, though. Sergio Pisa |
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02-09.-2007, 11:14 PM
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Re: Bikes still free on International flight (United)
I wonder how many bicycles were on the Titanic. And did they get shipped
for free. ================================================================ <jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org> wrote in message news:46d98763$0$14144$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net... Mike Jacoubowsky writes > Just got back from France with my son & two bikes. On United, at > least for now, bikes are still shipped at no charge as part of your > baggage shipment. International only. $85 each way, last I heard, > for US flights. Airlines seem to have taken an anti bicycle stance with a limit of L+W+H=62" that barely allows a Dahon folding bicycle. Most airlines are charging between $85 and $100 for anything over 62" but Air Canada charged $43 (equivalent) so that was my choice this year. Last year Continental was already charging $80 each way. To make up for that, the airport baggage mashers broke off the rear derailleur cable anchor (braze-on) and broke off one of my valve stems at the base... inside a closed bag. These guys are resourceful. Fortunately my frame builder friend Fredy Rüegg could help me out and I had a spare tube. Other than that, no mechanicals during a 2500km ride through the Alps. To make up for that, we both got food poisoning on the Galibier, probably from pasta alla carbonara in Valloire, after which we had the runs for two days before heading up the Col d'Iseran and on to storm the Col de la Seigne (2616m) and the Col Ferret (2537m) from Bourg St. Maurice to Martigny (CH). http://www.roberts-1.com/t/b06/ch/k/d/index.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/fpoulin/940467598/ Trip report later. Jobst Brandt |
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