I have the same Scicon bag, and have a high opinion of it. My bike has always been fine, and (like you) I haven't bothered with taking off the derailleur or even removing the disc brake rotors. The wheels are terrific, and I managed to wheel my bike all the way from Inverness station to the start of the Etape Loch Ness without incident. I might buy spare wheels at some point, though; they feel as if they might be the first thing to go. But so far so good!
Actually, one of my wheels was broken in transit on one trip; made it impossible to roll. I bought a set of 4 spares and now put one in the bag, just in case.
@@JulianHutchings Am I right that you have dispensed with the "Horizontal Dropout Lock and Black Nut for AeroComfort 3.0 Bike Bag" as Scicon would have it?
Hi, how wide are your gravel bars at the widest points, ie the drops. Mine are 51cm, scicon recommend 50cm as max. Yours look a little wider than mine though?
Hi Julian, I have a gravel bike that fit into same bag, however the tyres 40cm wide that are too big to fit into wheel compartment and front gravel dropbars are to wide that bag cannot zip/close properly. Do you have any solutions? Thanks
I use different tyres. At the moment, 30mm on the front and 35 on the rear but I don’t ride much gravel, mostly roads although they are pretty poor in the UK
Might make sense to invest in a bike specific hard case for travel. Will protect your bike with greater reliability than the type of bag you're using in this video. Yes it will be heavier but your bike is more likely to arrive at its destination intact.
@@JulianHutchings Judith Chalmers OBE is a British television presenter who is best known for presenting the travel programme Wish You Were Here...? from 1974 to 2003. and was always on Holiday 😂😂
That bag likely cost more than my bike is worth. America is so vast that you can get to a new location by car and never ride the same roads twice. A major upgrade to the bag would be to make it airtight and inflate it.
Armstrong's book should be entitled It's not about the bike, it's about the (blood) bag... allegedly... ahem... Here, I don't wish to throw shade (I believe that is the modern terminology) over your Great Grandfather's invention, but Velcro really is just a rip off... A good video, and I must admit to being rather jealous as Ireland has long been on my bucket list of places I want to go. Known a lot of Irish folk in the past, all great human beings, so enjoy the trip!
@@JulianHutchings it is on the wild Atlantic way!! I’ve moved house recently and my books are still mostly boxed and I have a particularly busy week ahead, but maybe just maybe (perhaps) if I could find the right box and you happened to be whizzing through at just the right speed, maybe you could sign some of your books as ye whizz by (perhaps)?!
