British cyclist’s £12k bike sat at airport in Germany for weeks as baggage chaos continues Two readers got in touch to share their stories of bikes being lost when flying to bucket list events abroad cycling
When we reported earlier this week on a cyclist whose bike had gone missing when he checked it in ahead of flying to an event abroad, we asked whether any of our readers had encountered a similar situation recently – and two have got in touch to share their own experiences, one of them telling us how he was told by an airline pilot and fellow triathlete that his bike, boxed up for transit, had sat at the baggage reclaim in an airport in Germany for weeks.
Our report prompted road.cc reader Mike Little to get in touch, and he told us: “At least Neil lost his bike AFTER his race. On Tuesday 31 May I travelled from Newcastle to Hamburg via Amsterdam with KLM to take part in the European Ironman Championships on Sunday 5 June. It turned out that his bike, in its bike box as shown in the main picture above, had been at the airport the whole time – but Mike has still not been reunited with it.
“The value of my Cervelo TT bike, bike box and related equipment is over £12,000. In compensation, KLM have offered me £500.”
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