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The best part about traveling to Vegas are the 4 legs of the trip you can ride your bike, to and from the airports. Yep, Brompton is carry-on. Biking out of and into MacCarran, in particular, feels like donning and shedding a psychological condom, or getting a battery of shots before entering an ecotrope to which one's immune system isn't likely inured. Being on a bike on Vegas arterials, especially a "clown bike" surfing the shoals of glass and porn detritus at 20 mph alongside the tinted-window motorcages, is profoundly isolating, and that's exactly what I want when I'm there.

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AH in Pgh says:

Fascinating to read your note. You encourage me to think of doing things a different way. Thanks for that and please keep it up. Psychologocal condom? Truly articulate!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

hen power says:

we rode around LV on folders too... Dahons though. People sure give you a lot of room. Or they did, anyway, back in '02.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Gary Jazz says:

Interesting. I have a Brompton and have taken it around the U.S. and also to China and Europe. But always in a Samsonite 29-inch Oyster suitcase. What makes this carry-onable in and out of the Las Vegas airport as it is too big folded (about 23" x 23" x 11") for the standard rules (22” X 14” X 9” for a total of 45). This can vary by airline, but I don't understand how it can be different for in and out of the Las Vegas airport.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

cleverchimp says:

I've also traveled to Europe and to China this way, Gary. It's not quite a carry-on; I gate-check it as you would a stroller: clevercycles.com/?p=94
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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