Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

Is it the regular Elemnt model you have Ed?

http://blog.wahoofitness.com/official-global-technology-partner-of-the-rapha-cycle-club/

On the topic, saw this few days ago.. Which means things are gonna get more expensive, same thing happened with Apidura bags

I better get in quick then! :)

Yup, the regular one that still going strong, I'm loving the fact I can just walk into my house and it automatically upload the ride you did.

The downside? forgetting to plug it in to charge it! (usually with Garmin you need to plug it in to sync it).

I use ride with GPS and if you have ever had or currently have a 'special' character in the ride title then it won't upload. Been caught out a couple of times without realising.

Can you upload POIs say from a list of google maps favorites?

I've posted about this loads before in the Garmin thread but the problem isn't time with the 800, it's distance. I have had my 800 freeze up and brick 157 miles into a 200 mile ride with a moving time of 13.5 hours and a total time of less than 19.

This is a known problem among audaxers - do a search on YACF for more info. The answer is to reset and start a new track every 200-250km then stitch them back together later because the problem is the size of the track file not the elapsed time.

Aside from this 'feature' I've found my 800 extremely reliable and it's still going strong after five and a half years.

If you want to know if a Garmin is any good ask an audaxer because they actually ride their bikes properly ;)

The 810 is widely acknowledged to be less good than the 800, as @hippy says.

Is that the dual or whatever it's called? The one with both ends open. I was wondering if there were any drawbacks to it in terms of useable space, as both ends would be a bit tapered presumably.

Yeh, dual. Don't have similar-size drybags so can't compare to anything, but to me the ends seem round enough when filled. Took this model so i could make it fit between drop bars while having the strap attachment thingies centered.

Whats the best route planner? As all I know off if google maps, anything else out there with eaqsy upload to a phone (Samsung s6). I highly doubt my garmin 200 has any decent gps or route capabilities.

Dunno bout the best, but i've been using ridewithgps.com. Easy and straightforward to use.

Awesome, thanks.

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jzk

Received the waterproof one recently. Didn´t try it out on the bike yet and have no prior experience with bikepacking stuff but first impression looks good (it´s huge). Filled it up with water - only little bit of a leakage out of a seam. Good enough for me, it´s not a camelbak after all.

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Many audaxers use route sheets though. Cheats. :)

I've probably logged more miles on Garmins than everyone at Garmin, ever.

I can imagine anything odd causing Garmin dramas.
These were simple track names though, ie. the one it missed was "5.gpx".
Beast from the East - I remember it the most - it was a 9-part 600k as it was also the first ride I'd taken the shitty 810 on for a backup device. Previously I'd probably just uploaded a single file or not noticed it hadn't copied.

I noticed that even if someone else has used a symbol and changed the name and then you add it to your routes on Ride with GPS it won't upload to your garmin correctly. Why that is or where that data is stored I have no idea!

I normally export tracks to a GPX file and then manually edit the track name to make sure it's not something weird. The internal track name differs from the filename, ie. in the 5.gpx example, it's...

<name>Beast 600 5</name>

Not sure about RWGPS filenames though. You sure it's not a waypoint or something causing the issue?

Fairly certain, as I fixed it by changing the name and saving it as a new route so that it had started off with a name I knew was ok.

Do you still have the original in RWGPS? You could export both of them, using different filenames and then do a file compare on them to see what's different.

Looks nice

lolled

1l dry bags, not alpkit (no stock)... recommendations please.

Sea to summit ultrasil

I used Sea2Summit on TCR.

They worked.

I have never used any other type though so experience very limited.

Thanks both @skinny & @hippy