Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 LastLast
Results 1 to 25 of 58
  1. #1
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    On a genuine ol' fashioned authentic steam powered aereoplane
    Posts
    16,776

    Anyone selling a bike bag?

    I have an older Dakine which I like, but it's smaller from when bikes were smaller and my last two enduro rigs barely fit. The GF is gonna use my old bag and I want a new one......but don't really want to spend $400

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Location
    Down In A Hole, Up in the Sky
    Posts
    35,321
    You can use mine if you come down and get it!

    I’m actually considering going back to a bike box, as the Dakine bag weighs something like 12 pounds by itself. That can be the difference between making 50#’s loaded or not.
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Upstate
    Posts
    9,656
    I'm in the market for one for a road bike (so smaller). If either of you guys want to lighten the load, hit me up.

    Here's one that looks pretty good for bigger bikes. Yes, it's nearing $400 ... but ... it's new.
    https://www.biknd.com/jetpack-xl/jet...s1000316-group

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    SF & the Ho
    Posts
    9,264
    I have a cardboard box I’ll sell cheap

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Upstate
    Posts
    9,656
    Quote Originally Posted by mcski View Post
    I have a cardboard box I’ll sell cheap
    dibs

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Apr 2004
    Location
    Three-O-Three
    Posts
    15,411
    Quote Originally Posted by rideit View Post
    You can use mine if you come down and get it!

    I’m actually considering going back to a bike box, as the Dakine bag weighs something like 12 pounds by itself. That can be the difference between making 50#’s loaded or not.
    Just be super nice to the bag check agent, pre-pay for your bag online, and play dumb like you didn't already know the bag weighs 62 lbs. My success rate is about 50% using this not-so-tried and true method.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    On a genuine ol' fashioned authentic steam powered aereoplane
    Posts
    16,776
    I forgot about the box method. I may try this. The dakine is one of the lightest bags and I still had to remove my Push coil for the Mexico trip in 2021 and put it in another bag. PITA. One of my friends paid $300 for his bike bag on that trip lol.

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    SF & the Ho
    Posts
    9,264
    I’d charge you less than half that for a box

  9. #9
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    Hell Track
    Posts
    13,809
    I've been thinking about flying the bike in a box. But the problem with a box is that, if it's haggard after the first leg of the journey, you have to rustle up a new one for the return trip. That seems like it's potentially a hassle.

  10. #10
    Join Date
    May 2012
    Location
    People's Republic of OB
    Posts
    4,367
    I'm 50/50 on flying with a cardboard box that could be re-used again. A couple times the box has been fine, the other two it was pretty well mangled by the airline.

    Not as much an issue now but it was very hard to find boxes during covid when shops weren't getting much or any new inventory. But could be an issue if the area you're flying to doesn't have a lot of busy shops.


    Some bike clubs and shops have them for rent. Might be worth asking around. Or rent from a friend.

  11. #11
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Hyperspace!
    Posts
    1,368
    been using a tardis ground effect bag for a few years. been able to get the bike, some tools, and loads of padding in them without going overweight.
    airlines seem to abuse them - need to replace bags soon, but have only had rub marks and one bent brake to date.
    bag packs away small, which has been handy for travel.

  12. #12
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Location
    Down In A Hole, Up in the Sky
    Posts
    35,321
    Quote Originally Posted by smmokan View Post
    Just be super nice to the bag check agent, pre-pay for your bag online, and play dumb like you didn't already know the bag weighs 62 lbs. My success rate is about 50% using this not-so-tried and true method.
    I almost always don't get charged here at the gate in JH, but ALWAYS trying to leave S.A. and Mexico.
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

  13. #13
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Banff
    Posts
    22,192
    I have an extra hard case bike box you can have. I think I still owe you for an old rocky (maybe hammer) frame you gave me years ago.

    I'm in banff, come visit/collect


  14. #14
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    On a genuine ol' fashioned authentic steam powered aereoplane
    Posts
    16,776
    Quote Originally Posted by mntlion View Post
    I have an extra hard case bike box you can have. I think I still owe you for an old rocky (maybe hammer) frame you gave me years ago.

    I'm in banff, come visit/collect
    Ahh I would and I need to come up that way to ski.....alas, I am heading to MX in like 10 days.

  15. #15
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Banff
    Posts
    22,192
    Quote Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian View Post
    Ahh I would and I need to come up that way to ski.....alas, I am heading to MX in like 10 days.
    let me know, THe fat biking is good hear right now. skiing is more meh


  16. #16
    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Location
    northern BC
    Posts
    30,810
    yeah so I traveled with 2 touring bikes to france, one in a real bike carrier that we borrowed off the GF's ex which he used to travel to triathalons altho it might not have looked enough like a bike carrier and a box from the LBS that a kona came in

    On the real bike box which was likely worth > the bike inside they pried the lock and probably said " alors what a pile of shit !" but they didnt look in my kona box, I often wonder about that
    Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know

  17. #17
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Treading Water
    Posts
    6,675
    I've got two of those older Dakine bags as well. Going to Italy last summer I had to pull the Push coil off my wife's bike to make weight as well. Even put pedals in my other suitcase. This is the flip side of paying $200 per bike each way like we used to do (but back then we could do like 70lbs and really load them down).
    I find that traveling with a shock pump and dropping the fork makes a big difference, but yea those bags weren't designed for 29er long travel rigs.
    As mentioned above, I'm thinking about cardboard box for future trips because of the weight. I think I'd try to ghetto rig or custom build one though since packing them toaster style is always a fucking nightmare for me. Thinking about using corrugated white plastic sign board and building it to open on the large side so that it loads like a bike bag......
    However many are in a shit ton.

  18. #18
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    home
    Posts
    1,689

    Anyone selling a bike bag?

    Quote Originally Posted by wendigo View Post
    been using a tardis ground effect bag for a few years. been able to get the bike, some tools, and loads of padding in them without going overweight.
    airlines seem to abuse them - need to replace bags soon, but have only had rub marks and one bent brake to date.
    bag packs away small, which has been handy for travel.
    How much padding? What kind of bike? I Watched video and that bag seems super flimsy but the reviews and your endorsement have me interested.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    Last edited by Laps; 01-06-2023 at 05:41 AM.
    Perfer et obdura, hic dolor olim utior tibi. -Ovid

  19. #19
    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Posts
    2,367
    Quote Originally Posted by smmokan View Post
    Just be super nice to the bag check agent, pre-pay for your bag online, and play dumb like you didn't already know the bag weighs 62 lbs. My success rate is about 50% using this not-so-tried and true method.
    Or if possible fly Alaska airlines, they don't charge extra for any sporting equipment. Or at least that was the policy when I went to the PNW in 2019

  20. #20
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    The Fish
    Posts
    4,707
    I used to have one of these. Bikeflights threatened to make something like it at one point. They seem unobtainable now.

    We had a sewer problem in our first house that led to me throwing it out...
    a positive attitude will not solve all of your problems, but it may annoy enough people to make it worth the effort

    Formerly Rludes025

  21. #21
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Treading Water
    Posts
    6,675

    Anyone selling a bike bag?

    Quote Originally Posted by Eluder View Post
    I used to have one of these. Bikeflights threatened to make something like it at one point. They seem unobtainable now.

    We had a sewer problem in our first house that led to me throwing it out...
    Article says “They weigh about 22 pounds empty”.
    That’s a couple lbs heavier than the old Dakine bag with pads.


    Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
    However many are in a shit ton.

  22. #22
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Upstate
    Posts
    9,656
    Quote Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian View Post
    I have an older Dakine which I like, but it's smaller from when bikes were smaller and my last two enduro rigs barely fit. The GF is gonna use my old bag and I want a new one......but don't really want to spend $400
    Blowout pricing. Not sure it's the size you're looking for. I just ordered one and shipping to the states is $60. Still makes it a screaming deal and the bag seems pretty decent. Wiggle is a legit business.

    https://www.wiggle.com/wiggle-pro-bi...&sku=100238424

  23. #23
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    The Fish
    Posts
    4,707
    Quote Originally Posted by jm2e View Post
    Article says “They weigh about 22 pounds empty”.
    That’s a couple lbs heavier than the old Dakine bag with pads.


    Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
    It was heavy but had a lot of extra internal stuff that you could slim down or use carboard for instead. It protected better than any bag as well.
    a positive attitude will not solve all of your problems, but it may annoy enough people to make it worth the effort

    Formerly Rludes025

  24. #24
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    The Fish
    Posts
    4,707
    Quote Originally Posted by huckbucket View Post
    Blowout pricing. Not sure it's the size you're looking for. I just ordered one and shipping to the states is $60. Still makes it a screaming deal and the bag seems pretty decent. Wiggle is a legit business.

    https://www.wiggle.com/wiggle-pro-bi...&sku=100238424
    Shipping for 1 - $60, shipping for 2 $300
    a positive attitude will not solve all of your problems, but it may annoy enough people to make it worth the effort

    Formerly Rludes025

  25. #25
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    On a genuine ol' fashioned authentic steam powered aereoplane
    Posts
    16,776
    Girlfriend is borrowing one from her friend and I'm gonna use the old Dakine again. The last time I used it was with a Med Yeti SB150....hoping the GG Gnarvana fits a little better.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •