Thanks Rich. You are welcome. The sequence of packing a BF into a suitcase is probably the most useful info. It’s something I needed to record for myself so others may also find it helpful.

This is a great resource for those considering a Bike Friday purchase. Thanks for posting it!

Peter Berra … the BF sales rep. who hosted us in Eugene… could pack his BF NWT in 20 minutes!

It’s been a while since I’ve packed ours into a suitcase but I was getting fairly quick at it. Especially after we traveled around Japan by train and BF.

This was our most useful takeaway from our various manipulations also. We have never managed to get the packing time even close to 60 minutes for 1 bike let alone 2. The second one does go faster than the first, it is true.

Steve when I first wrote about this trip on another site and sent the link to BF, they published it in their Newsletter, saying it was one of the most useful packing descriptions they had seen.

I’ll send them this journal link too, because it’s probably still useful and due for a republish.

Probably the single most practical entry in my journal is the photo about putting the forks to the left, monotube to the rear, and the drive train to toward the base.

I think I learned that technique from the instructions we were given when we collected our bikes from BF in Eugene.

They never gave us any of this material! We have to, literally, reinvent the wheel every time we pack.