(do like that song)ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:18 pm
Yes, but Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
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Re: What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
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Re: What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
Well put Stuart. Sums up how I see it these days better than I could have put it. I did think about whether I was bikepacking, audax touring or roadpacking during the last few in Wales. For about 2 mins. Decided I didn't care, was simply travelling by bike. I felt free, that's for sure.
Cheddarman, the term 'bikepacking' goes back to the 70s or early 80s, you can drop the cynicism if you like :)
Cheddarman, the term 'bikepacking' goes back to the 70s or early 80s, you can drop the cynicism if you like :)
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Don't tell that to your countrymen Colin, they'll be guttedYes, but Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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Re: What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
Bikepacking is touring with an axe.
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Going for a bike ride and taking a long time to finish.
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Reminds me that I saw this picture the other day while I was researching MYOG frame bag designs:
https://restrap.com/products/custom-frame-bag-1
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Well wellthenorthwind wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:04 amReminds me that I saw this picture the other day while I was researching MYOG frame bag designs:
https://restrap.com/products/custom-frame-bag-1
When's it due to arrive?
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Cycling+nature+wild camping.
Just three of my favourite things.
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If I make gratuitous use of accommodation, I tend to think I'm touring, if I'm out under the tarp I tend to think its bike packing. Just bashed out 350 miles in 4 days. Mostly on road, some good tracks, some shockers and two days in the middle spent at friends doing some mountainbiking and drinking. I bivvied twice. I was on the grovel bike - was I bikepacking or touring? Don't know, don't care. I passed two dudes yesterday on trad tourers with front and rear panniers - maybe they were touring...
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What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
To me it's an escape from the normal, an excuse to exercise without feeling like I'm exercising as I hate exercising.
I love watching the sky, clouds, stars and satellites roll past, watch the sun setting and rising.
None of which (apart from the clouds) I can see from my house in the town
To me it's an escape from the normal, an excuse to exercise without feeling like I'm exercising as I hate exercising.
I love watching the sky, clouds, stars and satellites roll past, watch the sun setting and rising.
None of which (apart from the clouds) I can see from my house in the town
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The song "running to.the hills" by Dan Owen kind of describes it nicely for me. Obvs cycling instead of running.
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Re: What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
For me it’s getting away from noise like this ^Cheddar Man wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:26 pm Surely 'Bikepacking' is nothing more than a clever notion dreamt up by some poncey hipster marketeer to flog trendy nobbers, affluent middle- aged middle-classed ex-golfers, or old-duffers with more money than sense a ton of stuff that they didn't realise they needed until someone invented 'Bikepacking' isn't it?
Seriously, I went on my first bike tour in 1981, (a drop bar Raleigh Record Ace in gold as you ask)around the lanes and byways of Buckinghamshire with a couple of mates. What I have done in the intervening years has been on hardtail mtb's, a Dawes Galaxy, a full suss mtb, and a carbon road bike (that was a hoot). Now it seems it's called 'Bikepacking', well there you go! It's just cycle-touring, that is all it is. Everything else is marketting guff.
Seriously, I am on a rant now.............. I know people who would rather have their spleen removed than have a bike with a saddlebag on, they had to have a trendy courier type bag. Now Bikepacking saddle bags are out, they are fighting for the biggest capacity, most straps and hanging points and reflectivity. It's still a bloody saddle bag, the very thing 12 months ago you wouldn't have gone near with a shi77y stick....... nobbers
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