As long as you use a Leatherman it's fine.
To summarise:
- A fully rigid bike means that you're touring unless you are clean shaven and wild camping.
- Dry bags strapped to the bike means that you're bikepacking unless you're using some form of rack to stablise them.
- Anyone with a rack is touring even if they're sleeping rough in bin bags under a tarpaulin and foraging for food.
- A suspension fork means that you're bikepacking. Or touring.
- Sleeping in proper beds and eating meals cooked by someone else means that you're touring, unless you're riding mostly off road.
Well, I'm glad we've cleared that up.
Does it make a difference if I post it on Instagram or Facebook?
What about if I blog it? I mean there's clearly a difference between a route on Bikepacking.com and crazyguyonabike....
When I was actively blogging my trips I never really considered if I was touring or bikepacking. Thank heavens I never thought to categorise them
How did you know which hashtags to use?
I mean there’s clearly a difference between a route on Bikepacking.com and crazyguyonabike….
On BP.com a ride becomes a route, created and named (ideally with a roundel style logo) to be shared with the community. When you've ridden these routes you can add them to your Instagram bio.
On CGOAB rides are recorded for anyone who cares to read about them, like slow strava with a diary, and no-one follows them because they're doing their own thing anyway, thanks very much.
I don't believe bike packing actually exists. Its a hallucination brought on by excessive craft beer and beard oil.
Facebook posts linking to your Youtube videos are mandatory
Facebook posts linking to your Youtube videos are mandatory
If someone bikepacks but doesn't vlog about it, have they even bikepacked?
it's usually called Credit Card Packing when your cycling between digs with kit on bike
Facebook? Maybe that's it.
Facebook = over 50 = tourer
Instagam = under 40 = bikepacker
40-50 years old = uncertainty about what life means in general, ride a bike from A to B and sleep wherever, time to think about it all, whatever it's called.
Glampacking.
it’s usually called Credit Card Packing when your cycling between digs with kit on bike
It was Credit Card Touring when I first did it on an unequipped road bike, minimal kit in a light rucsac, so I'm properly confused now : )
It was Credit Card Touring when I first did it on an unequipped road bike, minimal kit in a light rucsac, so I’m properly confused now : )
I always thought that Credit Card Touring meant you only carried a credit card and a travel toothbrush with you, ie nothing that you couldn't fit in the pockets of your lycra?
Oh. Then I'm lost. I was on that trip too, it was great.
uncertainty about what life means in general, ride a bike from A to B and sleep wherever, time to think about it all
Don't forget to ponder about whatever it all means to your GoPro from time to time. You know, for your edit.
It’s only bikepacking if you don’t take a change of socks, but you do take fresh ground artisan coffee and a v60 filter.
What do I use to filter my coffee if I've only got one pair of socks? 😱
If I ride around with a load of fudge in a frame bag what's that called?
@singlespeedstu depends on whether you're going uphill or downhill?
How long must stubble be before a man with a plaid shirt can claim he has a beard?
How long can the flipped up peak of your cap be before you transition from "graveller" to "80's thrash metal" ?
You know, for your edit.
"I went looking for a ride experience yet I found so much more..."
“I went looking for a ride experience yet I found so much more…”
Don't forget the mandatory emotional catharsis, "Today's been really hard..." followed by redemption the following day when the weather turns for the better.
40-50 years old = uncertainty about what life means in general, ride a bike from A to B and sleep wherever, time to think about it all, whatever it’s called.
Dammit. I resemble that comment.
How long must stubble be before a man with a plaid shirt can claim he has a beard?
Is that the opening line of a Travis song?
Dammit. I resemble that comment.
Ha.. it came too easily to mind when I thought 'what about the 40-50yr olds like me..'
'Don't run away from your problems. Pedalling is much faster'
