Love that - all about getting out there and having fun, rather than fussing about with expensive kit.
10k should be sufficient for a pub bike, poodling about Aldi parking lots.Or spend £500 on the bike and kit, and £9500 on travel and time off?
Hmm, buy a fancy wankbike and stay in municipal campsites and be worried about locking it it every time you stop...
...or bike across SE Asia / Karakoram / Camino / Pacific Coast / North Sea Route / whatever.
I gave up on bikepacking groups as they became discussions about the lightest brand of Tyvek groundsheet rather than about DOING stuff.
10k should be sufficient for a pub bike, poodling about Aldi parking lots.
Aspiring magazine writer here, yes. I honestly think 170mm should be the new norm, you should see the size of the speedbumps we have in front of Aldi! Full suspension is a requirement to be frank with you.
Do you write for a mountain bike magazine? They seem to suggest that unless you have 140mm of suspension travel, you are likely to die riding to Tesco Express.
You are too right about Univega - splendid bikes that are desperately under-appreciated. The thinking man's Kona.
Sadly there is something that looks all to much like a crack on my wife's Aluminium 800 from the bottom of the head tube into the downtube. A beautifully light frame, so not surprising I guess.Yeah, univega, solid. For a brief period I'd say they outperformed Kona's. And it is very, very rare that I've seen one cracked.
I finished my low budget bikepacking steed yesterday. The bag for the top tube is still missing, damn delivery times....
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