It's designed for people who regularly travel by air and who don't want the bother/expense of taking oversized baggage or organising a hire bike. Summing upĪll in all, the Break-Away achieves its aims very well indeed. If you get dropped on the climbs by the locals when you're away on your travels, you won't be able to blame the bike. Bearing in mind that the UCI's minimum weight limit for racing is 6.8kg, that's an impressively light setup and the Break-Away feels responsive and flickable out on the road. Our complete bike, built up with high-end kit including a Shimano Dura-Ace groupset and Ritchey's own WCS Apex Carbon 38mm wheels, weighs just 7.15kg (15.8lb). That might sound a little heavy for something costing £2,700 but, of course, you have to factor in the fixings, the fact that the two parts of the frame overlap where they meet, those joints need to be built strong to handle the pressure of clamping. It's sold as a frameset only with a claimed weight of 1,810g. If you didn't already know, you wouldn't be able to detect that it splits in the middle purely from the way that it rides. The short answer is that it is.įirst things first: you certainly don't jump aboard the Break-Away and feel that the connection between the two parts of the frame is anything other than perfectly solid. But the big question is whether it's a bike that's actually worth taking with you. So the Ritchey Break-Away has plenty to offer in terms of travelability. All that stuff is taken out of the equation by the Break-Away. Taxis, trains and buses can sometimes be difficult with a huge bike box (I once had trouble getting from an off-site airport car park to the terminal with a bike box because I was apparently supposed to have booked it on the shuttle bus, FFS!). Having a bike that packs into a suitcase-sized bag rather than a normal bike box might also save you hassle travelling to and from the airport.
Anyway, I'll leave you to work out the economics for your own personal circumstances. You'd have to save a lot of £40s to outweigh the £2,699.90 frame and fork price, of course (67.4975 of them, to be precise), but that's not the whole story, if you were to buy the Break-Away as your main/sole bike as opposed to an additional bike that you just used while travelling. Travelling with the Break-Away could save you airline charges although, of course, you do have to buy it in the first place, and it's not cheap. > Check out 's guide to flying with your bike A boxed bike is currently £35-£40 (depending on weight) per flight (not per booking) with EasyJet, for example, when booked in advance, and more if you pay at the airport.
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The built-up Break-Away that I've been riding, plus its travel bag, is 13.8kg.Ī standard bike in a standard bike box counts as oversized luggage and in most cases (there are exceptions) will incur an extra charge. The weight limit for standard hold baggage with EasyJet is 20kg. The Break-Away in its travel bag is comfortably below that at 167.6cm. The maximum total size (length + width + height) of any item of standard hold baggage must be under 275cm. I checked the EasyJet hold luggage allowance, for example. That's too big for cabin baggage, obviously, but it's small enough to be checked in as standard hold luggage on most airlines without incurring extra fees (there are exceptions, so always check out your airline's policies before flying). The Break-Away's travel bag measures 8.5in x 26.5in x 31in (21.6cm x 67.3cm x 78.7cm). The travel bag comes with straps and its own little wheels so it's easy to move around, just like a normal suitcase. Two dimensionally, it's not much larger than the size of the wheels. You'll be amazed at just how small the packed down bike is.
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