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but it doesn't look like there's space for a sleeping bag + matt + tent + stove + pan etc, unless there are all incredibly tiny? So is it just a credit card tourer?

If you ditch the cooking stuff, you can have it all, and reasonably comfortable too, even on a track bike.

That one didn't have a tent or presumably sleeping mat either tho, which would make it easier! Any suggestions Ed for a budget small tent?

I tour for around 2 weeks each summer with less, no tent or pots. Cold food and forest/beach sleeping with a bag only - Love it. I'm sure in colder climates the pot becomes a necessity.

Love that yellow bike, I'm sure I saw it at Grinduro in Arran.

No coffee tho?!

Normally it goes the way of...

Ride to the first small cafe you see, order espresso, use toilet... Keep on touring

^^ hell on earth

How noticeable is the difference between 700c with 42mm tyres and 650b with 42mm tyres? I have yet to try any 650b

Ed has tire ganglias.

650b in 42mm make more sense in reducing weight and keeping the bike feeling lively.

Fuck it, 20" is where it's at right now! Even more weight reduction, less trail, more lively and even more ridiculous:

Fuck it, 20" is where it's at right now! Even more weight reduction, less trail, more lively and even more ridiculous:

20" is the 29er of the small-wheel-world. 16" is where it's at!

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You guys are going to look like fucking chumps when you see my new touring bike

16" ha! May as well ride a 36er

Is it fixed? What's your ratio?

Cold food and forest/beach sleeping with a bag only

Arran

I'm guessing you weren't sleeping on a beach on Arran? Because if you were you're an absolute nutter!

Bromptons, and crossing the the length of the Shetlands with pack rafts for the wet bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2G099tCs9g

Still have a UK outlet for the rafts, just been looking for it.
https://backcountry.scot/product-category/brands/alpacka-raft/packrafts/

That one didn't have a tent or presumably sleeping mat either tho, which would make it easier! Any suggestions Ed for a budget small tent?

The tent I use is a MSR Hubba, sleeping bag is the cheapest lightest Snugpak, and mattress is the Klymit Inertia X Lite Ultralight mat.

The tent pole is strapped to the top tube so the tent itself can be packed 1/3rd the sizes.

half a saddle, one and a half bikes, awesome guy

half a saddle, one and a half bikes, no gf

Seriously though, why is this not a thing?

Keep your cargo half bike under the stairs.

What you mean like detach the cargo bit and then just ride the front half normally with a wheel? You'd need to recable (unless you creatively tuck the extra length of cable somewhere) and swap chain every time for one thing. A trailer basically achieves the same thing right?

why is this not a thing?

Cause everybody keeps hammering on about short chainstays.

impossible to be single with a touring bike as awesome as this

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