As OP, it is so cool what happens when you spend time away from the keyboard. The goal here is to walk on with the bike, stuff it in the front part of the car on the top shelf, get off the train and ride away. So no bike box.
I'm familiar with Amtrak east coast bike transit, and they are very fussy about which trains can load bikes. It is basically the through trains like the Vermonter that have a bike car that is combined with the baggage car, so it you do it once a year like Bob K, and plan way in advance, it works. And those trains have odd hours and at most 4 bikes per train. Most trains don't have em. Hence the question. I will say that if you want to take a train to Baltimore from DC, every MARC train now has bike hangers, probably much like on the West Coaster. Baltimore is great, "prettiest place on earth", but I want more (pun sorta). Check out Streets of Baltimore <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4NoboSq6w> by Gram Parsons. So sad. Bromptons are great. We rented them in London - got em out of a box at the train station. But I am at bike limit with wife and all. To digress, when I told her I was getting a tandem bike for me and junior, she fatefully asked me the wrong question: "where will you put it." "the garage has plenty of room," I said, and "you only get one question and you neglected to ask if I really need another bike." She probably won't make the same mistake twice. Steve P, right you are about the fender issue. I'd need to get rid of the plastic SKS and get metal ones. I have the cable disconnects on my S&S bike and like those fine. They never seem to get out of tune for shifting and brakes are less finicky and work. Sounds like the major investment would be the headset and the removable pedals - thanks for the resource recommendations on those that I am checking out now. Great to have so much knowledge (and opinions) in one spot. Steve Seelig On Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 7:10:01 PM UTC-4, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Wow, Ana! Fantastic. Tips for convincing them to let me do this should I > ever need it? > > With abandon, > Patrick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f7fd6f27-34fb-46da-8575-4b028ba98114%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
