Popcorn filled bicycle travel bag

Here' s the problem: You check in at the airport with your bicycle and they tell you it has to be neatly packed to be transported at all, and in a rigid case, too, if you don't want any harm happening to its spokes. So you either use some pretty large and clumsy to handle cartons which your friendly bicycle dealer let you have, with lots of gaffer tape, or you buy an incredibly expensive, rigid bulky case and hope that at your destination airport you'll find some safe place to lock it up until you return from your trip.

Here's the solution: On arrival at the airport, unfold your Popcorn Bicycle Travel Bag (TM - we couldn't think of anything snappy). Place your bike inside. Plug your miniature popcorn maker into the next outlet, fill it with a few pound of corn and shovel the popcorn into the bag until it is full to the brim. Lock the zipper and check it in.

At your destination, remove your bike from the bag, go outside the terminal and feed the pigeons (and rats and pig and boars, depending on where you have landed) with the popcorn. The bag will serve as a pair of pannier bags on the road.

On your return trip, don't forget to buy corn.