Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

It's usually called a wall..

Just realised the way I wrote it made it look like 75 metres which would be really crazy.

SEE THE WORLD 3: The Great Divide in Winter

I'm 11 minutes through this and thoroughly enjoying it, likeable guy basically filming himself on the Great Divide. Nice bit of escapism for a Wednesday afternoon

This guy destress me about touring

Thanks for the tip on the 'Apidure', mine has just arrived. Looks/feels robust, but very wide, half the material needs wrapping up to fit inbetween regular drops. Really impressed by how secure it is compared to the Alpkit dual dry bag I had been using.

Just got the mountskidmore cage adapters to get the vertical bidon as low as the diagonal one.


Now measurement time to get a custom framebag!

Don't understand why they are providing the panniers loaded with probably a couple grands worth of Rab and suchlike kit for the loaded hillclimb.

Tempted to enter and just fuck off with all the stuff.

Yeah, I need some of that kit :)

Shirley you'd have you're own panniers with you if you're going to that event and there could just be a weigh in? Even if they insist on providing the panniers, a couple bricks would do as good a job as ballast as all that kit.

I dunno. I guess it's just a slightly novel way of getting sponsors "on board" (see what I did there?).

I didn't read the blurb, a mate sent it to me because he thought I'd be interested in the packing list.

Any recommendations on locks for bike packing excursions?

All of mine are London spec, so a bit bulky and heavy for my trip in Holland/Belgium/France.

It should be time / weight handicap, with a minimum requirement. That would encourage some fun stuff.

I'd take a trailer or something

The best lock is to avoid getting too far of you bike for more than 2 minutes. Especially in France, sadly.

I got an alarmed combo cable lock, could be cut through with heavy duty scissors but the alarm is ridiculously loud. If you're just nipping into shops and cafes I reckon it's the best bet as as soon as its touched it beeps a few times then kicks off if you don't unlock it. Handy for campsite as well, I left it with my stuff to alarm if anyone started snooping.

Like this but it was a little cheaper.

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Sounds (no pun intended) cool. Got link where you bought yours or are they all the same?

Anyone do any stupid-light cable locks for TransAm, where you're not quite ready to let a stranger take your bike home?

I bought mine a few years ago, it's the same as the one in the photo but with a yellow sticker. There's a couple of other more expensive options, beware not all that look like this are alarmed. I definitely rate a combination lock as well, no keys to worry about.

http://www.racking2go.co.uk/mini-lock-alarm.html?gclid=CMSrgOyqwcsCFUSVGwodaz0KEw

3s delay to unlock doesn't sound like much. I'm going to be deaf after fumbling with that bastard aren't I?

yeah but at least you will be awake.

Lol.

Thanks, have you had any issues with your giving false alarms? I don't want something like this waking the whole camp up at 4am.

Otherwise looks good.

No false alarms but as mentioned it is sensitive.

The way I figure it, any cable lock can be cut through pretty easily, you don't want to be luggin a d lock with you, so you might as well have a shit lock with benefits.

You don't have to set the alarm either, you enable it after locking.

Just be sure to use a memorable combination...

A decent framelock mounted to the frame is pretty handy if you don't mind the weight

Trudat!

Awake and angry, so basically, 'normal' in 3 seconds. Not a bad idea.

http://www.kabrus.co.uk/
I have the small one of these. Keys > combis..