• This has nothing to do with bike packing, its just good old touring. Nice video nonetheless, amazing scenery!

  • What’s the distinction between touring and bikepacking? Where is the tipping point? He sleeps in ditches, up mountains or in jungles, sometimes in hotels, sometimes with local people...I’m not sure what the distinction is here?
    He doesn’t have a dangly mug or a moustache though.

  • Bike packing = single/fewer nights away lighter weight kit straps your bike,
    Touring = multiple night trips with a lot more load, generally going further afield

    Of course this doesn’t really fit into play, there’s always going to be a massive crossover bike packing is just the markets way of making touring cooler

  • He doesn’t have a dangly mug or a moustache though.

    This is it though, let's be honest.

  • All these hipster terms like bike packing and gravel bikes annoy me a bit. So I don't understand that if you're touring with a classic set up with 4 panniers and a handlebar bag you still call it bike packing...

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