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Aqua Blue Sport bike completely destroyed by budget airline

Posted on: May 16th, 2017

Aqua Blue Sport bike completely destroyed by budget airline

Aqua Blue Sport bike completely destroyed by budget airline

This is the bike smashed to pieces having been man handled while in transit on an airline.

 

A couple of months ago we brought you a story about a video showing baggage handlers throwing a bike bag off an EasyJet plane.

And now one of the Aqua Blue Sport riders had had a very unpleasant experience. And he says he was travelling with the same airline.

Peter Konig took to Twitter to share a photo of the state of his Ridley bike when he collected it after a flight.

As you can see, it looks like he crashed hard on it; it’s completely broken to pieces.

Konig complained that not only had the airline handed the bike back to him in a smashed up state, but it was refusing to help him.

However, EasyJet responded to his Tweet seeking details of the incident.

And the airline also replied to several Twitter users who Tweeted their disgust about the bike becoming so smashed up on a flight.

 

 

 

 

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Where did the name come from?

A stickybottle, put simply, is the knackered cyclist’s best friend. As a rider is being dropped from a group, the team manager or support worker in a following car holds a bottle out the window to hand it up. As the handover is taking place, the rider grabs the bottle tight, as does whoever is handing it up, enabling the rider get a good tow and push from momentum of the car. It’s known as a stickybottle because it appears neither the rider nor the person handing it up is able to take their hand off the bottle; it looks stuck to their hands. But please don’t try this at home. We’ve been slyly cheating this way all our lives; it takes a while to perfect.

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