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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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 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.

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.....

Feels a bit like the asylum in the Hitchhiker's Guide series, the mad ones are on the outside...

So what collective nouns . . to describe bikepackers.

A nutteration of

A tussock of bikepackers, surely?

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.

there's a few more suggestions here:

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A kerfuffle of bikepackers.
Based loosely on my slightly disorganised approach to the activity.

A vagabond of bikepackers ?

ChrisF wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:17 pm A kerfuffle of bikepackers.
Based loosely on my slightly disorganised approach to the activity.

Haha like this one

Surely a dysfunction of backpackers is the inconvenient truth