[Closed] Critique my set-up

Depends how immune you are to that cooking pot and mug rattling and bouncing around at the back. Is it just clipped on with the krab?

How long is the trip?

Trip is 5 days. The mug doesn't rattle, the cooking pot moves around quite a bit. It's too wide for my frame bag, but I might be able to get it into my saddle bag if I re-jig the packing a bit.

I'd defiantly get that cooking pot into you bag. Chance of ripping it off is too high (let along the jiggling about which would drive me mad - a dangle mug already makes me a bit stressed!). Have you got anything inside the pot? If not, stuff it full (e.g. gas, stove) to use up the space and move things around.

5 days? where? If you are remote enough to need to do your own cooking then you do not need a whole saddle bag full of clothes. Im doing 6 days and apart from what i will have on, i am taking 1 rain jacket, 1 lightweight down jacket, spare socks and 1 spare base layer. Thats it.

6 days i want clean shorts every day - so 2 spare pairs and wash them every second / third day also a couple of clean base layers

danglies are not acceptable BTW!

Well you've taken the phot non-driveside facing and it also appears to be in the granny ring so it's horrendous.

But the way you've hung things from your seat-pack is very on trend and will no doubt get Insta-likes, you're missing a pair of well worn flip-flops strapped to the bag though and I do hope you've got frame protection tape under those straps or you'll have no paint left if it gets dirty.

On or off road? Mudguards will keep your kit much cleaner / drier but don’t work so well off road.

Might still consider a SKS clip on style thing front and back.

I would find swinging my leg over on the 4th day would prove nigh-on impossible. Cramp in the quads - oof!

But good to see you got home in time for Call the Midwife.

In the saddle bag I have a spare pair of bibs and jersey, t-shirt and shorts, base layer, warm,but small merino wool jumper, spare socks, and a small packable towel. Rain jacket will go in frame pack or stuffed in pocket.I put a few more bits into the compressible sack and can get the pot into bag. Mug will fit into the frame bag. While it says it's 12 litres, I don't know that it actually is.
I have helicopter tape on order for the frame.
Don't have or wear flip flops, not even taking a spare pair of shoes.
Bringing my own cooking stuff as I'm cheap. Not going to be horribly remote- mostly will be in Dorset.

That rear bag looks huge for what you've just described.

mrhoppy
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That rear bag looks huge for what you’ve just described.

That was what I was thinking too when I asked. Good wee tip i've seen on here a few times is to take what you're going to pack and get rid of half of it, then you'll find you have what you actually need. The shorts, t-shirt and towel would be the first to go for me

In the saddle bag I have a spare pair of bibs and jersey, t-shirt and shorts, base layer, warm,but small merino wool jumper, spare socks, and a small packable towel.

Sounds like there must be a lot of spare room in the seatpack too if that's all you have in it?

Looks fine apart from the pot and mug hanging on the rear.
Better with those inside.
Also try to keep the heavier items within the main triangle, it will handle better.
If i was being picky, a custom framebag would let you use all the available space within the main triangle.
Other than that, looks fine, have fun.

Did a bit of re-jigging of the saddlebag. First, I got ride of the compression stuff sack. Turns out I can fit what is in there better without using it. Now the cookset fits nicely in the saddlebag. If I were going on this trip alone, I would probably think twice about the shorts and t-shirt. But the first 2 days is with friends (on road, B&Bs, a bit more civilised), and we are going out in the evenings for dinner. The other 3 days are on my own, gravel, camping and a bit less civilised.
Coffee mug is in the frame bag, filled with tools. Hydration bladder is going in the frame bag as well.