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The day when you forget or lose your bike bag, a few hundred yen at the convenience store for a pack of 75- or 90-liter garbage bags and some packing tape will get you home. Ghetto-rinkō style.
N.B. Save the planet: the garbage bags can be recycled into... garbage bags.
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usually at major train stations they will have an elevator. The size will fit your bike and a wheel carrier.This thread is great! I'm about to pull the trigger on a rinko bag on Amazon.
In the train stations, do you carry your rinko'd bikes on the escalators or look for an elevator?
Bit of both - it depends on the station layout, how busy it is, and where I want to get on the train. For example, at Mizonokuchi station south exit, one of my frequent haunts, there's an escalator from street level to the gate level. I wheel my bike up there, and bag it next to the gate. Just next to the gate are an escalator and elevator to platform level. Elevator comes out near car 3, and escalator near car 4. I want to get car 1 which has best options for stowing the bike. So if there's no one waiting for it, I'll take the elevator.In the train stations, do you carry your rinko'd bikes on the escalators or look for an elevator?
I've only done this twice. Once I had no choice because I'd crashed (in a freak blizzard) and smashed up the derailleur. Second time was more planned. It seems it's up to the driver and how many 'normal' passengers there are with luggage that needs to go in the hold. Bikes can really slide around and potentially get damaged down there in the luggage compartment.what about traveling by bus?