Packing the Tandems

A number of people have asked how we transporting two tandems to europe. I'll explain the way I hope it will work. On Monday, I will let you know if it actually works this way. We are taking the boxed tandems on the plane. As unlikely as it seems, I called Air Lingus and they said it would be OK and put a note in our file. I'm still suspicious but it is the best option we have available to us.

Below are a couple of pictures of the two tandems in boxes that are almost ready for transport. The final preparations include two layer of padding that sandwich the wheels followed by a lid and straps to hold the whole thing together.

The boxes are large and about 70 pounds. I'm thinking we will run into some significant overage fees but it has to be less than the cost to UPS them to Europe.


S and A's tandem. Same as the tandem below but the size is Medium -Small (Medium for S and Small for A)









R and S's tandem. XLarge -Small tandem





I'm expecting everybody too be crossing their fingers for us around 4:00 PM for us as we try to check these in!