Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

From the other photos you posted it looks like you had a pretty good weekend! I was a bit bummed out last night as more and more people were posting awesome photos and getting a whole bunch of texts/message about how amazing the whole weekend was (you bastards!)

On the plus side, I took delivery of a tarp, some ti-pegs, a tick remover and something-treated headnet as a precaution for the Lakes. Played around with various luggage set ups on the Karate Monkey and got round to fitting a completely new, and hopefully bombproof, drivechain (still singlespeed!). Think I've got everything planned out. Just need to stitch up a couple of bags to keep tent pegs and other pointy things from rubbing through anything.

It was amazing (just incase you needed reminding).

New kit sounds good, are you up the Lakes this weekend?