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I'm thinking of buying a bike bag for touring. I was looking at the ground effect bags - they fold up to an a4 ream of paper size, as they've no padding. The idea is that you recycle the padding (cardboard, etc), and it minimizes the size of the bag if you're lugging it around.
Are there other ones I should be looking at?
Possibly my Giant (*as in manufacturer) one, as it's for sale (near Reading/Swindon).
Was ok for me (*didn't use on flight, cars, buses, trains etc), pedals off, rear mech off and taped inside frame, wheels in pockets, bars off and zippied to frame with levers pointed inside bag, headeset bits taped in place, I used 2" pipe foam lagging in various places, including around rings, frame etc etcas protection and to stop them ripping bag. Pleased to say that all taxi drivers took it without arguing.
*Having been surfing via plane and seen 4 surfoards scrapped as they 'put' golf bags on top (of the large fragile, top load stickers) I'm not sure I'd use it on a plane.
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Can you send me a picture? How small does it fold down?
Soft padded bike bags are just the same - you just have to hope the throwers don't put your bike in first.
will send stuff later tonight
Decathlon's own one has no padding and end's up a bit bigger than a ream of paper.... does the trick for me with a bit of strategic bubble wrap/foam