[Closed] Sick as a dog so, show me you Bivi / Bikepacking / Adventure racing gear.....

cheers MSP

Managed to fashion a similar bag with an old dry bag, as Alpkit are out of stock of the exped bags like yours 🙁

used some small round headed nuts and bolts so will see how that fairs, I will post some pics once the glue has dried.

I have managed to reseal the drybag to keep it watertight using some industrial glue

That's the bike set-up now for the first trip of the year next weekend. Spent the morning fitting gears, as it had spent the winter as a singlespeed.
Will be spending several weekends following an off road route through Germany from the French to the Czech border. Looking forward to going so light weight on my gear for the first time.
Tent on the handlebars, cooking gear, food, sleeping mat and a few ancillary items in the frame bag, few bits of spare clothing in the camelback and sleeping bag attached to saddle.

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Good luck MSP and enjoy ... set up looks well 😉

sounds like a great trip planned there MSP, good luck and if you can keep us updated on your travels. 😉

I've just been sorting my set up this evening, copying MSP utilising a home made saddle pack. Really impressed I have seriously shrunk my kit from the winter bivvy.

I haven't weighed anything as I am not after the ultimate light weight set up but one that works for me. Looking forward to a shakedown on Friday.

I will post some pics with the bike loaded asap 😉

1400 posts! whoop whoop got one 😉

Thats tragic Pete.
Posting twice to get the 1400th post. 🙄

😳 sorry had to do it 😆

still ok for Friday??

Yeah fridays still on.
Are we now meeting at Ian's then doing his gap ride?

great 😀

Yes, I think so I will email Ian and copy you in and we'll confirm things up 😉

May get ground clearance for this...... 😀

YAY!!!!!

Don't worry about me fellas ... I'll just stay here working 😉

Tiger - I've mailed you the details.

Edit - it was all the flat one's idea, blame him 😉

You ride bikes for a living, and you want us to feel sorry for you??? 😉

Matt, I did you email you a week ago about this do you not get it?

Weather is looking great for Friday too 😀

Sorry but the forecast I've seen says, rain, freezing temps and storm force winds for the whole of Wales the entire weekend!

Evidence please 😉

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2123?&search=brecon&itemsPerPage=10&region=world

like a summer day hopefully 😀

even better

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Wales/Brecon_War_Memorial_Hospital/long.html

I gave up on making a frame bag as my bikes all had slightly different sized triangles, or none at all. (plus it was too frickin' difficult for a ham fisted moron like myself!) So when DoctorRad posted the link to the bargain bike frame bags I snapped one up. Cheers Doc 🙂

I didn't pedal my 456 (WRT bike of choice) in to work today so here it is on my tourer after a lunch hour test ride.

With the larger top-tube of the 456 and the cable routing there might be a slight problem with the velcro tabs matching up but I'll find out this evening. T'was a bargain anyway, shame they've all gone now....

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Aerial view of bag stuffed with two of them there bargain Planet X LS cycle jerseys...

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[i]Two hours later....[/i]

Yeah, Baby!

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Get that bloody bike washed man 😀

Get that bloody bike washed man

That reminds me. I meant to say that I don't think that the bargain bike-frame bag is even slightly waterproof. Sunny weather & clear starlit skies for the WRT if you will my good man 😉

Don't worry, the expensive ones aren't waterproof either!

Don't worry, the expensive ones aren't waterproof either!

I am awaiting my order of Alpkit 1l drybags in readyness to waterproof everything as well as possible - overkill maybe but I hate wet stuff so depressing.

Not overkill Pete ... wet stuff isn't too bad for a single night but anymore and it's a touch depressing. No point making stuff worse than it already is 😉

what sort of overall weight is everyone's kit packed including food for one night?

I've got mine to just under 5kg which is a quarter of what it was on the Winter bivvy ride 😯

Haven't weighed mine recently but i reckon I'm a tad lighter, but not by too much. Depends if i'm glamping with wine and cheese, etc.
5 kilo's is a respectable weight.

5 kilo's is a respectable weight.

SUPERB NEWS 😀

and the main weighty culprits are sleeping bag and mat, that includes a superfly stove and gas cannister that I could replace for a meths tin can stove I guess.

I may treat myself to an uber light mat as I have just sold some rims which was a nice surprise 😆

Chaps gonna have to jib on the weekend, rather ironically I am sick as a dog!

Got tonsillitis and not up for it at all. The antibiotics would weigh 5kg

Get that bloody bike washed man

And trim and cap the front mech cable, that's a disgrace.

Bag works well though.

what sort of overall weight is everyone's kit packed including food for one night?

Tiger - pity you can't make it. See you at the WRT I guess?

Get well soon Tiger time to start another long running thread???? 😉

glad I am in the right ball park with the kit weight, as uber embarrassed last time 😳

Pete - you are welcome to borrow my 3/4 multimat if you want -sub 400gm, worked great on the last trip

cheers Steve but I think I'll be ok, are you still heading to N.Wales with the family or can you join us???

heading off to a cottage on Dartmoor with the family - hopefully biking and beaches! Can't make this one but I'm sure we can sort something out before the WRT

That would be good we must sort something soon plus a planning evening when Stuart releases the co-ordinates 😯

Shifting all that weight from your kit will make a massive difference Pete. Even when I'm riding my 'it only weighs slightly less than I do' black On One I can still notice a reduction in kit weight.

With regard to a planning evening with the WRT grid references ... you might need more than the one evening 😯

Last year i spent at least and hour, nearly every evening for the whole month, trying to make it easier. 😯

Back in the days when I did Polaris regularly, I'd spend about 5-10 mins planning routes of up to 80 miles for the day. You can spend too long looking at maps sometimes 😕

Could I just interrupt to say that I got a Western Mountaineering Flash XR jacket for half price today, and most pleased I am too.

As you were...

That is inspired MSP - have a few broken old saddlebags to butcher ...

Inspired by MSP also, I have created a saddle dry bag by using fixings off a Lidl saddle bag.

It is still totally waterproof as I have submerged it in the bath as there was nowt in it 😀

I will use a bungie to add to the security and will only be putting my sleeping bag and Etobicoke jacket.

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Valleydad, lets have a cheeky pic of it on ya bike then..

ok you've twisted my arm I'll bag it up - give me 5 mins 😉

Thats the way, cant wait for WRT really looking forward to it. Gutted Alpkit have sold out of the Gourdon 20 really wanted one for Wales.. 😕
IF anyone has or knows of someone who wants to sell there give me a shout cheers....

If all goes to plan next week Im heading off a long the Southdowns way to give all me gear a good testing.... cant wait