I’ll probably never get a chance to travel like that, but your tips on the pieces of cardboard and excluding family are well worth remembering!

That's a very smart bag. I can see how one's brake levers could sustain damage if not folded inwards. Have a great trip. Cheers 👍🏼

Ireland is a 32 county country. Enjoy your trip.

Great vid Julian.. hope you have a great time on your trip to Ireland.. I also have oil on all my underpants ;) 🚴

I have the same Scicon bag, and have a high opinion of it. My bike has always been fine, and (like you) I haven't bothered with taking off the derailleur or even removing the disc brake rotors. The wheels are terrific, and I managed to wheel my bike all the way from Inverness station to the start of the Etape Loch Ness without incident. I might buy spare wheels at some point, though; they feel as if they might be the first thing to go. But so far so good!

Nice one Julian a proper info video I've learnt a lot you get a thumbs up from me 👍👍

Sounds like a great trip

Hi Julian, Just letting you know that Malin head is in county Donegal,which is in the Republic of Ireland.

I’m so glad I’ve only got a Brompton - just wash n go! Obviously wouldn’t be able to keep up at the other end though…

i find the thru axle cannot use a rear derailleur protector. have you heard anything with the rear derailleur protection from people using this bag?

Hi, how wide are your gravel bars at the widest points, ie the drops. Mine are 51cm, scicon recommend 50cm as max. Yours look a little wider than mine though?

My brand new front disc got spoiled on my last trip with this bag :(

Hi Julian, I have a gravel bike that fit into same bag, however the tyres 40cm wide that are too big to fit into wheel compartment and front gravel dropbars are to wide that bag cannot zip/close properly. Do you have any solutions? Thanks

I see you didn’t wrap the chain over the t-bar with the black rubber? Is that just optional and not essential?

Might make sense to invest in a bike specific hard case for travel. Will protect your bike with greater reliability than the type of bag you're using in this video. Yes it will be heavier but your bike is more likely to arrive at its destination intact.

Flipping Heck , more holidays than Judith Chalmers ,😂😂.

That bag likely cost more than my bike is worth. America is so vast that you can get to a new location by car and never ride the same roads twice. A major upgrade to the bag would be to make it airtight and inflate it.

Thank you very much. The instructional video provided by Scicon is terrible. This is sooo useful.

Armstrong's book should be entitled It's not about the bike, it's about the (blood) bag... allegedly... ahem... Here, I don't wish to throw shade (I believe that is the modern terminology) over your Great Grandfather's invention, but Velcro really is just a rip off... A good video, and I must admit to being rather jealous as Ireland has long been on my bucket list of places I want to go. Known a lot of Irish folk in the past, all great human beings, so enjoy the trip!

Will you be passing through Galway by any chance?!

That rear der is not put in the bag correctly :)

Disappointingly competent 🤣