In practice, you just have to have your bike boxed and given to the baggage people before the train arrives. They may say an hour or two, and I usually allow plenty of time, but really it doesn't take long and the longest time is taken by taping up the box.
Since I almost always ride to the train station, I loosen up the pedals beforehand and then tighten them just finger-tight so they'll be easy to take off. > COAST STARLIGHT travels between San Diego and Seattle, and the one Hugh > tried to catch in Paso Robles. The Starlight has always required bikes to > be boxed and checked as luggage. As Anne noted, It's a simple process given > some lead time. Big box (sometimes used ones available for free) for > something like $5; remove pedals, turn bars, wheel the bike & tape it up. I > think on their website Amtrak wants an hour or 2 before departure for this > process. Another wrinkle in the process is that this can only happen at a > station that is designated for "baggage service" which means the train stops > long enough to load & unload stuff. -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
