Is this 'bikepacking'?

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MuddyPete wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:59 pm "Bimble Bagging" for those of us whom inhabit a more Tolkeinesque reality than most :smile: .
Ha! "Trig Baggins", "There and back again", "The Desolation of Bugeilyn", The Two Tussocks"...
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One r i g to bind us all :lol:
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Sajama wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:55 pm 75% off road you are a bikepacker.
75% road you are a cyclotourist .
That's very precise. By time or by distance? :wink:
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How about fudge packing for those of us that like confectionary on the trail?

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thenorthwind wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:23 pm
Sajama wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:55 pm 75% off road you are a bikepacker.
75% road you are a cyclotourist .
That's very precise. By time or by distance? :wink:
Well that's immaterial, trouble with the UK cyclists is they the love to invent niche stuff and then have my tribe is better wars on the net :grin:
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Well that's immaterial, trouble with the UK cyclists is they the love to invent niche stuff and then have my tribe is better wars on the net
This is actively encouraged by the cycling orientated media outlets and brands

I have done a lots of things on various types of bikes none of which define me

I'm still slow and unfit and lacking in skills regardless
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This is actively encouraged by the cycling orientated media outlets and brands
Because you need a special vbke for each type of riding so gravel rides cannot be done on a flat bar rigid 29er etc.
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Have we yet found a consensus? So quiet here.
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:lol: :lol:

The Panda Sutra on a kids top, the mind boggles!
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Just saw this in the latest Tuscany Trail newsletter email:
Bikepacking is not just a way to move from one place to another but is more like an art that weaves together the freedom of bicycle travel with the minimalism of living with what you can carry.
Not as bullsh1t as it appears upon first glance..... :-bd
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