This page describes the equipment which Kari and I took on our cycle ride to England in June, 2012.
For the return flight, we repacked our kit to both reduce the number of bags, and to make one of the rear panniers as near to 7 kg, the weight-limit on Swiss Airlines for items of hand baggage, as possible. We took this rear pannier and the handlebar bag onto the plane as hand baggage. We had to pay about EUR 60 per bicycle for the flight.
A pdf version of David's packing lists is available at:
www.maden.ch/2012a-uk/equipment/packListDavidUK.pdf.
The two columns, "On Tour" and "Post Tour", indicate the location of items
during the tour and for the return flight, respectively. Note that one of the
front panniers was folded up and carried in a rear pannier for the flight.
A pdf version of Kari's packing lists is available at:
www.maden.ch/2012a-uk/equipment/packListKariUK.pdf.
Kari's lists do not make it clear how she re-organised her kit
for flight check-in, but she also folded up a front pannier
so that it could be carried in a rear pannier.
Our packing lists were based very heavily on Jon Houseago's excellent Web site:
http://www.cycletourer.co.uk/