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Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:42 pm
by TheBrownDog
Letting Reg do the route plotting.
Booking a poncy Chilterns pub for dinner at a winter event for 16 starving bikepackers
Letting MuddyPete and Rich3rd dictate the speed of drinking
Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:11 pm
by RIP
Triple whammy!
Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:12 pm
by RIP
Pickers wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:37 pm
The only other real one was sending the same volunteer into every pub in town to get a table. And we chose the chap wearing two pandas on his head.
Yeah, well they were hungry too poor things!
Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:51 pm
by sean_iow
Choosing a waterproof based on its weight and/or packed size rather than the ability to keep you dry
When making a net tent to go under a tarp, laying the netting out on the lounge floor, marking the panels with blue dress-makers chalk and being impressed with how well it shows up on the net only to notice the blue lines are on the carpet under the netting

luckily it hoovers off or this would be my last post before Jane buried my remains under the patio

Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:02 am
by RIP

Another cracker there Sean

. Lucky you weren't using a marker pen...
Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:59 am
by summittoppler
I forgot to pack my gas canister on Sunday. I put it down to the fact I used a different pan set so my routine was 'changed'. Anyways, thanks to JC and Allen for loaning me some gas.
Re: Bikepacking mistakes you’ve made
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:06 am
by Bearbonesnorm
I forgot to pack my gas canister on Sunday. I put it down to the fact I used a different pan set so my routine was 'changed'. Anyways, thanks to JC and Allen for loaning me some gas.
I thought you were going to say "taking John with me"
