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Bits of the Purbeck trails have changed a lot in some of the rain in the past year. Especially around the golf course, where things like Frank's Tank - the MTB trails down the side of it - have just disintegrated into rut central. Hard enough without luggage, and highly dependent on bike handling. The regular rocky bridleways are already enough.
Gorgeous part of the world, though.
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Wrote up a blog post of my 'bikepacking' trip in Dorset this weekend.
https://calumonwheels.com/2024/07/08/purbeckbimble2024/
I used the 29er but jubilee clipped two adventure cages to the cylindrical suspension fork. I was a bit nervy of clamping things to forks but because it's a stiff cylindrical aluminium lower leg I just wrapped electrical tape around the fork and then clamped down the jubilee clips as tight as I could. They held up pretty well so I put my lighter stuff in there and kept the heavier items in the alpkit airlok 20l drybag on the handlebar or the planet x giant saddlebag.
No tent for me, I had a bivvy bag and stretched a tarp over my bike and a mate's and pinned it down with tent pegs and guy lines which kept the wind and rain off us and worked very well. Once we'd properly pegged it down it wasn't flappy or noisy at all.