Travel Blog #3: easyJet ease up on hydraulic bikes
At the risk of the Travel Show turning into a “Bike Travel Show”, here is another interesting bit of bike travel info:
Bike Biz (http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/) have reported that easyJet (”Europe’s leading low cost airline”) has just lifted its ban on accepting bikes equipped with hydraulic suspension and/or brakes. Apparently they came under the heading of “prohibited materials”. They are most likely concerned about the highly corrosive nature of hydraulic fluid if it were to leak, because they cant be worried about it expanding inside the cables or shocks - the stuff doesnt expand, thats why its used.
There are plenty of mountainbiking Poms who travel from the UK to France or Spain to go riding - I know, I’ve seen them at Morzine. It would have been a big dissapointment arriving at the airport with your downhill rig and being told that you cant take it with you. The storal of the morey, check with your carrier before you go about taking hydraulic equipped bikes with you, and also check for leaky seals and connections.