Traveling with S&S cases
I have a new question for those who travel with hard cases. My wife and I are taking our tandem from SFO to Dublin next week for a 12-day Irish cycling tour. It is our first travel with the tandem which has S&S frame couplers and disassembles into two S&S hard-sided cases. Each travel case has two latches and another location where a TSA lock can be used. The latches are Franzen 1400 model which uses a universal key.
My original plan was to simply lock the latches and call it good, assuming TSA would have the universal key to open them. My second plan was to also put a TSA lock on (the "belt and suspenders" plan.) Then I began to worry - what if the TSA inspector doesn't have a universal key? Will they trash the locked latches to open the cases? Should I leave the latches unlocked and rely on the TSA lock?
Can anyone share their experience traveling with S&S cases?