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Since I have been carrying a Pike Superior X tail around the country for the last few months...I have learned plenty about it.
Mostly I have learned that the vertical is TOOO tall. I have talked to Samba about it and of course it would be pretty tough to change the mold...and Euro's often don't understand USA kinds of stuff. (heck it took them 10 years to bottom hinge flaps!)
In any case, the tail is tall and proned to tip crumpling, buckling, bending if forced into a bag with out enough room for the stab and some slabs of colored foam rubber banded to its sides to protect its pretty tip from being crunched.
Jim Bags are wonderful bags, but I doubt that they have the space,,,,not positive. Al can customize your bags...or could, so what ever you chose keep that tail and the fuses over all lonnnggg length in mind.
What bags do I use? I had Jim Prouty make some custom bags for me when he was still doing it. Special extra thick pad for spacing the tips with their turned up ends, and another for the center panel, AND some velcro straps to keep the panels from sliding around in the bag.
ON this trip to Aussieland, I have my Pike in the bag, and in the end of the center panel is my Stylus and charger wrapped in bubble wrap, seperated from the wing panels by those pads. Tying the panels down IS important, I learned that early on with the Stork.
Figure out the size and some space, then spend the money :-)
Gordy
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