Starting point logistics - advice please!

[shootingstar]

Have returned to Vancouver after a month in Europe and in a few days in Toronto.

So my Dahon folding bike was "folded up" and shipped in a soft large Dahon bike bag.

It survived:

1. Air Canada flight- Vancouver to Calgary, 2. with switchover onto Luftsana Air from Calgary to Frankfurt.

3. 2 European train rides-- just so we could get around the problem of 2 out of 5 different European train trips where the train bike car was each time, full already. Allowed to ship bikes as baggage, not as a bike.

then return flights: 4. Copenhagen to Toronto
5. Toronto to Vancouver which happened several days later after segment #4.

The minor problems that the bike has now has nothing to do with baggage/storage handling. More probably related to the mud/dirt that the bike has which is making some parts not easy to screw /align some nuts and bolts. I have quick release pedals which I think the threads are abit dirty...

I am pleasantly surprised about the level of risk that the bike took in the whole transportation handling/baggage segment. Yes, it did cost some shipment fees. But renting a bike would have been a headache for me, since I'm short/small.

I noticed in Copenhagen....alot of BIG bikes. Maybe the average Dane is just taller/bigger. I would have had problems renting bike.