Traveling with your bicycle
If you are not driving to a far away event, it is a problem to bring the bike. Here are your options: 1. Rent a bike at location 2. Fly with your bike as luggage 3. Transport your bike with a commercial triathlon bike transporter 4. Drive anyway 5. Not go 1. I have tried renting in Sweden which resulted in a summer with no competitions at all. Basically, there are not that many competitive bikes to rent and I am not a common size. I have given up on that solution. On big events, local rentals run out quickly. 2. I have flown with my bike on several occasions and it works, but includes a lot of preparations. First you have to make sure that the plane you are boarding accept packed bicycles. Small planes do not, and popular routes can have black out dates for oversized luggage during peak season. For example, flying to Europe during the summer months with a bicycle is not allowed on many airlines. Cost for the bicycle is around $150-200 per leg. Clearing those hurdles, you have to