I'd have to defer to Tim and his sources, as I've yet to travel much with my own bike, and never overseas (or yet to ride in the alps, for that matter -- I just thought the photos were amazing). I agree that the crazyguyonabike is a good source. There's some info also from folks at these sites, much from personal experiences:
http://www.backintheworld.com/ http://sunset.spiralcage.com/?p=100 http://www.adventurecycling.org/ The last of which has this resource: http://www.adventurecycling.org/library/ Rick. On Aug 19, 6:58 pm, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Don wrote: > > > On Aug 18, 10:50 am, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some remarkable pictures, obviously some audacious climbs (Gavia, > >> among others). Marginally on-topic (Riv sells Jobst's book "The > >> Bicycle Wheel"), rewarding regardless. > > >>http://www.paloaltobicycles.com/alps_photos.htmlHeyRick, > > I have a question. When you travel (fly) to a location to do touring, > > especially if it would be to the Alps or some other European location > > how do you handle transporting your bike and/or other equipment? I am > > a novice to touring and especially to this type of touring. Any info > > you can give me or direct me to would be appreciated. > > There are many ways to do this. Jobst has posted many articles about > his tours in the Alps and has discussed his particular method (which > was for years to partially disassemble and wrap the bike in Visqueen). > > http://www.trentobike.org/byauthor/JobstBrandt.html > > There are many other sources for information that you can easily find > with Google. One great resource is: > > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com > > Look down the left column for "Bags & Packing." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
