I'm off on a tour later this year. need inpiratin! shw me your touring mtbs!

Inbred

wow thats a load! how does it ride over bumpy stuff? we're off to canada and washington usa and i think it gets rough!

This was mainly on-road. The trailer was unhitched when I wanted to do a playful loop in the woods en-route. It did handle pretty well off road as long as it wasn't too gnarly and you remembered the width!

sorry this is the best photo of my bike and also me friends on a tour in scandinavia,
yup we were touring on a train 😀
specialized hardrock and my giant xtc on the right

"Cheap" Chinese Ti

456 panniered up.

This summer I rode it from Bingley, West Yorks to Banbury, Oxfordshire (200+ miles) mostly on tarmac but some off road, it coped very well, but the handling is "interesting" with all the weight at the rear. Apart from the panniers the only other changes from trail riding spec was triple chainset and Schwalbe Hurricane semi slick tyres. Oh, and I wound the U-turn on the Revelations down to 95mm travel.

How do you attach a rack to a bike with no rack mounts?

P-clips

Seeing as I only have the one bike, my stumpjumper is my touring bike

these are all very interesting, i think explosion in a spagetti factory's is clse to my thinking, maybe with rigids and a pack under the bars, oh and a frame bag!

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All on the White Rim Trail in 1994. We did alot of touring that year as part of a year off, but for this trip we had a third person who could operate my camera so we actually have an action shot

a pack under the bars

What like this? 😉

Check out Epic Designs for some real nice kit.

http://www.epicdesignsalaska.com/

bang on! thanks for the link, looks like just what i need! can you get enough stuff for multi day rides in it ok wiht a back pack too?

Yep.

The Epic Design seat packs look realy good too.

Here's Singlespeedpunks bike on a trip we did in Scotland a few weeks back.

that blackbuck looks ideal, just what i have in mind….

that's a german train, isn't it….

i've got a few photos somewhere of my bike and BOB trailer from a few years back (prior to me having a digital camera – i'll have to find them and scan them). rode from london to munich. happy days.

mate and i cycled across the alps in summer just gone. no major changes made to the bike – just slightly more shit in the packs than usual. wrapped a tarp around the handle bars, fitted a bottle cage and bought a saddle bag.

alpin – Member

that's a german train, isn't it….

blimey Alpin!!!
yeah your right,
how did you know that???

we came back from Scandinavia, via germany (then ferry from hook of holland)
hence the german train

So we have gay rugby players coming out and now train spotting mountain bikers. There can be no taboos left in sport.

colande – Member

alpin – Member

that's a german train, isn't it….

blimey Alpin!!!
yeah your right,
how did you know that???

i live here….

Karate Monkey and Scandal at Inverness airport, complete with EpicDesigns stuff.

@ iDave. I've got a Pine Mountain exactly like that. Been thinking of turning it into an expedition tourer too….

it was an ace bike boblo, raced XC, DH, crossed deserts on it. if it has wheels and rolls, you can tour on it.

hmm kind of inpisring to do a tour again mithinks!

Looking over to Bremerhaven

my jamis Dakota 631 and my ex's 'Dale F500, Motueka, South Island NZ in '99

Things were a little light up front on the steeper climbs!!