| Re: Airplane travel with bicycles
> Don't imagine that "FRAGILE!" or "THIS END UP!" will mean anything to
> baggage handlers. We got to watch as our fragile, this end (i.e. toptube)
> up bikes were stacked on their sides on the roof of a luggage truck, then
> pushed nonchalantly down to the ground. Quite a test of a packing job.
My favorite place to watch baggage handling is Minneapolis. Amazing the way
stuff gets thrown off the planes, or falls 10' (or more) off conveyer belts,
or falls off the luggage trams. All right in plain view of the terminal
windows. Totally bizarre. Almost as bizarre as noticing the ground crew
there speaks Fargo-style Minnesotan, big-time. Not the people inside the
terminal, just the ground crew people.
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
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