Your touring/bikepacking setup

Got any better pics / more details of that last one? It looks great, though the others do too.

A bit kitchen sink compared to most, but this was for 10 days in Belgium/France earlier this year, camping 8/AirBnB 2.

That was one of only a few that I had left. Taken 10 years ago on my Iphone 5… :) Should be more on a hdd hidden somewhere… The bike is a Bob jackson World tour with bar end shifters, dynamo, Sugino triple, Nitto campee racks, Carradice bags, VO rando front bag, decaleur - the whole lot. Lovely bike for touring!

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Love it.

Hi,
Could I ask if you were, or are still, happy with the Nitto Campees? Did you notice the weight much? Considering buying a front one for myself. Always liked the rear one too.

If you no longer use them, may I ask what you use now?

Lovely photos, by the way!

Latest set up for 10 days cycling around Scotland - largely wild camping with bivvy bag and meths stove. Definitely more paired down than the past.

Set up from 2 1/2 weeks cycling around Georgia in 2019

@platypus has a nice set up

The rarest of all Carradice spotted in the wil!

How's the steering on that trek, panniers look very high? Very pleasing framebag fit!

Nice

That Carradice bag has now passed on to @adamdenw some time ago

Steering on the trek is fine although far from nuanced. The Trek is now my daily rider and typically has pannier bags either on the left or right hand side. I have been through a couple of racks though...

My Caad as a touring bike, somewhere in Germany

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My Fuji Touring on day three of London-Venice earlier this year. Very happy with my rig. I roll up my hammock with the sleeping bag still inside and fits into a stuff sack. The detachable basket is great for grocery shopping, and throwing in my shoulder bag/camera/radio.

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that's a fun set up

Very nice! Could I ask if that's a mic boom on top of your green bag? It's the sort of thing I carry about too ;-)

I've always wanted to get a hammock for touring, but never got past the 'what if there are no trees' aspect.

I've been taking a tarp, bivvy, hammock. Not a super lightweight setup but gives lots of options.

Cheers :) it's not quite a mic boom but close! It's a very long selfie stick for capturing 360 videos - like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaWjUv-EU_0&t=588s

That hammock photo was actually an evening when three campsites in Füssen said they had no trees for me! So I wildcamped in the forest nearby. Once you have one in your sack you'll be spotting two perfect trees everywhere.

If you carry a small section of groundsheet, most hammocks can easily be set up on the ground like a bivvy bag. Worth carrying a bit of extra guyline and pegs so you can use your bike, lamposts, a single tree, etc, to keep the head end of the hammock and tarp lifted off your face.

That is nice to know!

I've had too many configurations to bother documenting but my general preference for road is a bike with dynamo light, aerobars, Garmin and low gearing fitted with

Revelate saddlebag, top tube bag, feed bags, Restrap custom framebag

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My MTB 'fast' setup, I've ditched the saddlebag on the dropper these days and don't use a hydropak if I can get away with it. It's just another custom Restrap framebag, big Revelate front roll, feedbags and top tube bag

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Touring setup... as above plus an OMM rack and drybag for tent

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Sorry about the late reply! I was pretty happy with the campees, theres more to choose from today but back then it was pretty much these or those ugly Surly racks that most tourers used. Can’t say I thought much about the weight but with a steel bike, panniers and so on, obv the whole thing’s gonna be pretty heavy. One thing I did like was the ability to take the low riders off for daily use. I used the bike for commuting and such as well and it becomes more of a normal bike without them. Just stick a basket on top of the front rack and day to day use is sorted. Today I have more of a minimalist bikepacking thing going on. I did buy the Oac erlen rack recently though…

Made a bit of a change for this weekend. The tumbleweed T Rack which I use to support the saddlebag now, has some mounts on for fork packs. They're really useful!

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