[Groop] Groo TPB on eBay & a Question

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Gary,
            Do what I tend to do. If you already have a bicycle (which
most people do), get a bike box from a bike shop, take off the pedals
and disconnect the wheels, and bring you bike with you on the plane to
your destination. When you get there put your bicycle back together and
ride to where ever you need to go. As far as the bike-box either fold
and carry the box or discard it and get another box from a local bike
shop before you flay back.
            On my overseas trips to Zurich-Switzerland,
Freiberg-Germany, Vienna-Austria, Budapest-Hungary, and Tokyo-Japan I
brought my bicycle with me and used it as my primary method of
transportation while in each city.  Although technically during that
trip when I flew in and out of Zurich, I biked to Freiberg and back.
Also on the trip when I flew into Vienna, I actually biked down
alongside the Danube River over the course of three days & two nights
then flew out of Budapest. In all those overseas cycling trips I spent
about a week in each city and rode my bike to get everywhere I wanted to
go.
            Now that I have a cargo bike, it is much harder to dismantle
and carry as luggage on a plane. In time I really want to get a smaller
folding bike to make overseas trips with a bike that much easier. :-)
            And Gary, generally it tends to be less expensive to simply
buy a cheap bike at your destination rather than rent one. Over the
course of only a few days a rental bike might actually add up to costing
more than a fully purchased cheap bicycle. Even a super cheap crappy new
bike should last you a couple of days over a weekend or weeklong trip,
then you can give it away or simply abandon it with a "Free Bike, take
me!" sign.
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