# Bike Travel Bags
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441 "2017-11-08T17:45:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@yummygooey](https://tarck.cc/u/yummygooey)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/1 "2017-11-08T17:45:04Z")
I think it might be cool to have a bike travel bag now that Alaska Airlines (hub out of Seattle) is only charging $25 to check a bike. I’d like to be able to fit my rando “all road” bike in there, but also a full suspension mountain bike that I do not yet own. I’ve been looking at EVOC and Pika Packworks.
Any tarcksperiences with either of these?
Anything else I should look at?
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### Author:  [@Perlhammered](https://tarck.cc/u/Perlhammered)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/2 "2017-11-08T17:51:00Z")
I just got an EVOC a few weeks ago. Super easy to use, fits my YOLObike with loads of room for other gear (or a FS bike), and relatively easy to maneuver around. It is, unfortunately, immediately recognized as a bike bag, so you won’t be able to ninja it on less friendly airlines.
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### Author:  [@rabbi](https://tarck.cc/u/rabbi)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/3 "2017-11-08T17:53:48Z")
I have friends that have inconspicuously flown with pika bags. idk about fs, though.
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### Author:  [@Perlhammered](https://tarck.cc/u/Perlhammered)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/4 "2017-11-08T18:10:59Z")
As far as others to look at, the Thule offerings seem to be pretty nice, if a bit on the pricey end of things
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/5 "2017-11-08T18:17:02Z")
Somewhat related:
The black s&s box available from Q is garbage. It’s flimsy and it doesn’t feel as quality as the padded ritchey breakaway bag.
I would recommend the cheaper (and possibly lighter) padded case vs the rigid plastic
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### Author:  [@yummygooey](https://tarck.cc/u/yummygooey)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/6 "2017-11-09T16:39:00Z")
I like that the Pika is so compact, but I’m worried about being to maneuver it to/from/around the airport due to its lack of wheels. The Evoc has wheels, which seems like it’ll help.
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### Author:  [@rabbi](https://tarck.cc/u/rabbi)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/7 "2017-11-09T17:33:24Z")
[quote=yummygooey]I like that the Pika is so compact, but I’m worried about being to maneuver it to/from/around the airport due to its lack of wheels. The Evoc has wheels, which seems like it’ll help.[/quote]it’s got backpack straps
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/8 "2017-11-09T17:56:05Z")
Carrying a bike that weighs more than a road/track bike on your back while traveling sucks. Ask me how I know. Wheels are a necessity. I had a Pika for a couple of years and the only good thing about it versus other cases is that it was easy to fit into a car.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Pubes](https://tarck.cc/u/Mr_Pubes)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/9 "2017-11-09T18:17:33Z")
bike
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Pubes](https://tarck.cc/u/Mr_Pubes)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/10 "2017-11-09T18:17:43Z")
aw
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### Author:  [@Whippin\_Skidz](https://tarck.cc/u/Whippin_Skidz)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/11 "2017-11-09T18:43:35Z")
lol
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### Author:  [@amy](https://tarck.cc/u/amy)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/12 "2017-11-09T19:18:53Z")
> [@crabbi](#):
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> [quote=yummygooey]I like that the Pika is so compact, but I’m worried about being to maneuver it to/from/around the airport due to its lack of wheels. The Evoc has wheels, which seems like it’ll help.[/quote]it’s got backpack straps
not helpful if you already have a backpack with you…
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### Author:  [@Shortpants](https://tarck.cc/u/Shortpants)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/13 "2017-11-09T19:43:22Z")
I just made my own from a yard of cordura, a few buckles, and the straps from my old ortlieb. bingo bango.
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### Author:  [@goose\_value\_69](https://tarck.cc/u/goose_value_69)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/14 "2017-11-09T23:27:59Z")
I have a Trico Ironcase if you want to borrow it in the meantime.
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### Author:  [@JUGE\_FREDD](https://tarck.cc/u/JUGE_FREDD)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/15 "2017-11-10T04:00:47Z")
we’ve also got a pair of hardcases at BA for loan
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### Author:  [@Roundalab\_yellow](https://tarck.cc/u/Roundalab_yellow)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/16 "2017-11-10T04:10:19Z")
Had a Pika for 4 years, between my trips and friends’ trips it probably had a dozen uses or so? Good build quality, packs up into not that much space when not in use. Side pockets fit a good amount of stuff. When I flew with it to Europe I packed a ton of clothes in space bags in all the extra room.
If I had bought it a year or two later I might had snagged one of the Scicon Aerocomfort bags. Had some hands on time with one at Sea Otter, pretty slick.
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### Author:  [@yummygooey](https://tarck.cc/u/yummygooey)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/17 "2017-11-14T18:41:50Z")
Went with the Evoc. We’ll see how the first trip goes in December!
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### Author:  [@Bikergram](https://tarck.cc/u/Bikergram)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/18 "2018-03-23T17:01:12Z")
yummygooey - how did the Evoc work out on your trip? I’m seriously considering one - thanks for update.
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### Author:  [@kmcdon1](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon1)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/19 "2018-03-23T17:24:11Z")
> [@Bikergram](#):
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> yummygooey - how did the Evoc work out on your trip? I’m seriously considering one - thanks for update.
[h1][Tarck](http://tarck.bike/node/19540%5B/h1%5D)
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### Author:  [@yummygooey](https://tarck.cc/u/yummygooey)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-travel-bags/21441/20 "2018-03-23T17:27:00Z")
Who’s newguy?
Anyway, for everyone else who’s already posted their bike in the newguy thread: The bag worked great for two trips so far, both with Alaska Airlines. Tons of room for a 55cm all-road bike, maybe too much. Pretty easy to load up the bike, and it would be wayyyyyyy easier if I didn’t have all these integrated cables and lighting and fenders and racks and whatever. Nominally it’s just wheels & rotors & pedals & dangler & stem/bars off, seat down and velcro strap stuff in place.
First trip I loaded all the empty space with clothes and like 10 cans of beer each way. I loaded up my fenders around the wheels and they got smanged up (really not surprising) but nbd cuz the airline comp’d me for them. Having to remove/install/remove/install fenders is tedious anyways, I’d be hard pressed to travel with them again. Second trip I left it pretty empty with just the bike and basic bike clothes. Way easier to haul in/out of cars and transit, around the airport, get it on the check-in weight scale, etc… duh.
Tl;dr the bag worked great and the only thing I don’t like about it is that it’s a little unnecessarily big for smallpplbieks.
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