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I wouldn't put stuff in a backpack unless absolutely necessary.
Revelate do Joey bags and there's a downtube bag named after me from Beer Biker that's designed for tent poles but she'll do other custom stuff. There's also plenty of band-on bottle cage mounts that can allow you to put cages everywhere.
Dunno about aero, you're on an MTB, just stick a front roll on it.
Yes, there are full top tube length bags. Just have a look at Ortlieb, Revelate, Restrap and Apidura sites and you'll see many options.
On an MTB, I prefer full frame bags with tools and bladder paired with front roll for sleep kit, stem bag for batteries and nick nacks and a couple of feed bags. If I need more capacity I'll then add a Restrap Race saddle bag although I try to avoid this for dropper reasons. Hydro pack if I need it is the last thing I'll add - weight on body is the last thing I want.
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Thanks a lot for this, I'll investigate those. Reckon that's frame and top tube bag and some band on bottle cage mounts sorted.
I'm used to riding all day with a 4-5kg ruksak so thought I might as well use the donkey rider as a beast of burden for some lugging, with the bladder and few things in backpack.
I'm only going to be exploring Wales, Scotland and Northern England, not crossing continents in a few days like you and @skinny so overheating isn't going to be a problem.
And ha I didn't mean mean a pointy loaf front rack for the aeroz, more that a pointy loaf would fit better in the gap between bar cables. Tho surely it is more aeroz even on a mtb. Has XavD and the Aerocoach crew not been 'dragged' into the backpacking realm yet for you country crushing riders?
I had thought rolls would be a problem up front as again the bulgy outty cables would be in the way, but yes as @cheekysnaker (thanks!) suggests the salsa or some other sort of bracket that pushes bracket out from bars 3-4 inches looks the way to go, so thanks for that, and i can srrap a drag bag/sleeping bag to that. Something like that might work on the rear monostay too.
And @skinny just thinking up to a week but more often 2-4 days. I like light but not slumming it in a ditch style, have decent tent, want at least 2 rings for cooking, thinking 2 of those firebox nanos as love the design and tiny pack size, probs ti for full tart light weight tart option. And just ordered a lofi cup cooker with powerbank fan to test for quick morning tea and variable heat and aa a 3rd ring option. (#gastrotwat) Have airmattress, chair , and down sleeping bag so got most of the camp kit.
I love good design so don't I'd paying for something genuinely great, but happy to bodge gaffer tape and ziptie if they the best solutioms.
That's given me more googling so thanks all.
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After some help please with a steer towards some kit to convert my old 26er into a part time bikepacker. I'm a.seasomed camper but never by bike so a bit overwhelmed as i know virtually nothing of any bike related gear or termimology so bear with me, here goes....
See pics of current mtb set up, Ideally looking for kit that's quickly and easily removable so I can thrash around mtb single-track trails when not loaded.
Bike only has 1 bottle mount and I going to remove cage and fit frame bag there, something like a revelate ranger. Water is going in camelback in ruksack along with a few kg of stuff. As front dérailleurs are a thing of the past it seems, will these modern frame bags work OK and taper down enough at crank side to not interfere with FD and 3 rings? or is there a bags with little cuts I need to get?
Does anyone make something so i can fit a bottle or slim dry bag or two to the underside of the downtube? Thinking of some kind of flat bracket to use in the frame bottle bosses that I can still fit a full size.frame bag over, with straps/loops to a bracket umder the downtube i can attach stuff to? Any recommendations/alternatives for this space?
Onto the rear end, as I have a dropper I thinking of just getting a tiny.saddle bag for multi tool/ levers/tubes/patches.
Is there some kind of skinny rack I can fit using those mudguard bosses on the rear monostay? with maybe a support bracket on the seat tube beneath the seatpost collar?.
Obvs not thinking this can take much weight, but something like a sleeping bag. Other thought is maybe just try and fit a dry bag direct to the monostsy somehow, any.funky bracket I can get for that space that will avoid a bodge that risks things sliding into the rear wheel? Open to any other suggestions for packing at the rear end of this? Maybe another begind the stem bar bag can go here?
And finally onto the front. With hydro brakes and levers, FD and RD gear cables and dropper levers and cables it's already an utter shitshow up there. And I've got a Wahoo and a Gopro for time-lapsey still to be fitte to the bars, so the traditional un-aero loaf of bread style handlebar bag up against the bars is not going to work.
Is there some kind long skinny rack similar to what i wanted for the rear, that could positiom a loaf of bread size light luggage, in the aero position below and in front of the cabling shambles? I've got a spacer of a few cm under the stem so thinking maybe a bracket there and then maybe an extra support looped over the stem near the bars. Does anything like this exist? Any other suggestions for storage out front when there s a jutting outcrop of cables?
If I cant use a big bar bag or get a front rack, then maybe get something like bar mounted pouch/dry.bag to hang either side of the stem?
I also plan to get a largish behind the stem top tube bag, that magnetic flippy one looks good, forgotten the name of it. Is there any really long amd slim draught excluder type top tube bags that run full length of top tube?
Any pointers gratefully received, thanks.