Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

Thanks! Popped a spoke on it yesterday taking it well out of it's(my) comfort zone.

The rest of our route has been incredible!

I'd take less than that for a two week tour!

You know, extra seatpost and all that

It’s actually not that much stuff. Carradice is just camping stuff: sleeping bag, mat, pillow, tent and a few tools.
Framebag has tent poles, snacks and camera and the bar bag is a couple change of clothes

Films?

Rolls? Couldn’t be bothered. Just got the Ricoh GR II digi

Here you go. Packed to the max, bag held:
Terra Nova Laser Comp
PHD medium weight sleeping bag
silk bag liner
lined rain jacket
mini wash/first aid bundle
mini tool bundle
folding 23 tyre (I was on tubeless 28s, hedging my bets with a spare)
tube
spare lights doubling as torches
spexcase
bungees and snax

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^ perfetto!

^^ Awesome (incl. DIY routesheet holder)! Did you take a mat?

The dangle ITENSIFIES

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I got 2 fuji superia extra(?) 400s and a kodak colour

Plus most my mates agfa that was left in the chrome(bling af) MJU 1 that he's lending me.

In set ups like this I can’t help but think panniers would be 10000 times better.

Why peasant film? For that 'film Æsth€tic'? If so, fuck you.

Ektar, portra, velvia

Whats that solar panel thingummy? Phone charger?

Possibly. But we’re doing a load of off road riding so being able to whip all the kit off without tools is handy and I do rides where I need to carry this much stuff that rarely that I’d barely get any use out of the rack and panniers. Framebag and Carradice I use a lot on their own though.

Aye that’s fair. Panniers come off an arkose with an Allen key proper quickly as well

But if you’ve not got them run what ya got

Actually not DIY, it’s an alu mapholder made by Pletscher.

And, no, I fucking forgot the mat! I think I could just have squeezed mine in, it’s only about the size of a beer can. So I slept with assorted clothes laid under the bag. Not lovely.

And Zero Danglers™️ which is something you lot could have a bloody look at. Everyone knows danglers off your stuff is for green stick campers.

Where was this? Looks like the start of the Basingstoke canal...

It is! Me, him and Hp93 rode the river and then the canal down towards the new forest

Did you record it, if so have a link?

https://www.strava.com/activities/1520762073

Towards the end it got very hairy. I had 42c tyres and managed but hp93 on 32s broke two spokes. Tyre size probably unrelated but it was very technical

Nice!

In fact at some point near the end we lost the path and rode/pushed through fields and over fences so don’t follow it to the letter

Classic wahoo ;-)
Interesting start to your morning ride as well...