Scicon Travel Plus Racing bag – in brief review

In-car protection for your bike

Our rating

2.0

270.00

140.00

Scicon Travel Plus Racing bike bag

Neil Godwin/Future Publishing

Tom Marvin

Published: September 4, 2013 at 11:00 am

Our review

Larger volume would be useful, and the bag doesn’t represent great value

The Scicon Travel Plus Racing bag is more designed to protect your bike from light knocks, dust and moisture when travelling by car than it is for throwing in with the suitcases at an airport.

All that was required to fit a bike in was removal of the wheels – you just turn the bar, pop the wheels in the sleeves and zip it up. For the price you do get some high-quality fabrics with a small amount of foam padding, but that’s largely it.

If you don’t particularly want oil and grime dirtying the back of your car then it might be worth considering this as an option, but if you’re looking to really protect your bike from the potential damage of international travel, look elsewhere.

Scicon travel plus racing bike bag: - Scicon

This article was originally published in Cycling Plus magazine, available on Apple Newsstand and Zinio.

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Senior technical editor

Tom Marvin is a technical editor at BikeRadar.com and MBUK magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.