There’s an article in the guardian today about the Rough Stuff Fellowship- arguably an ethos many of us subscribe to and live by when we escape on two wheels.
It got me thinking (prompted by some recent posts) we get great enjoyment being individuals and part of collective, where shared experience, a bit of challenge, humour and suffering does good things for the soul.
Maybe we have strong caveman/women lineages? Maybe we are just one dispersed tribe going feral at weekends?
So what collective nouns, descriptions would you come up with to describe a bikepacker/s ? Here’s a starter
A Wiff - bikepackers on a multi day trip
Wayward- an anarchic bikepacker
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sunrise, sunsets, the seasons, time with family and mates: A life well lived.
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A Stench - One who is nearing the end of the route
A Dangler - someone out on their first ride or out to annoy Stu
A Dipsomaniac - group gathered by a pub
A Cake - those who have finished the "race"
A Dangler - someone out on their first ride or out to annoy Stu
A Dipsomaniac - group gathered by a pub
A Cake - those who have finished the "race"
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A misanthropist. Running away from social life, disliking what humans do in general etc.
An egoist. Leaving loved one behind in fear for his/her safety.
An egoist. Leaving loved one behind in fear for his/her safety.
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A "reality" of bikepackers - BP-ers who are escaping to reality not away from it 
. Well I do anyway.
From a non-BBB-ers point of view, we're probably an "asylum" of bikepackers.....
. Well I do anyway.From a non-BBB-ers point of view, we're probably an "asylum" of bikepackers.....
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The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
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The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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Feels a bit like the asylum in the Hitchhiker's Guide series, the mad ones are on the outside...
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mfezela
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A nutteration ofSo what collective nouns . . to describe bikepackers.
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A tussock of bikepackers, surely?
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A bivvy of bikepackers?
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A faff of bikepackers
A bimble of bikepackers
A whiff of bikepackers
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Just followed the link below.
Deja vu all over again.
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A faff of bikepackers
A bimble of bikepackers
A whiff of bikepackers
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Just followed the link below.
Deja vu all over again.
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Zazen - nothing happens next this is it.
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We go out into the hills to lose ourselves, not to get lost. You are only lost if you need to be somewhere else and if you really need to be somewhere else then you're probably in the wrong place to begin with.
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A kerfuffle of bikepackers.
Based loosely on my slightly disorganised approach to the activity.
Based loosely on my slightly disorganised approach to the activity.
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Haha like this one
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Surely a dysfunction of backpackers is the inconvenient truth 