Show us your bikepacking rigs

[KayOs]

Interested @KayOs in that last shot. Firstly, serious 'chapeau' for riding in the mountains! Was that a complete bikepacking load? Did you take a tarp & bivi bag and cooking kit?

Thank you!
We didn't have any camping equipment with us on this tour, as it was the first multi-day tour for our daughter and we stayed in huts. We therefore only needed our clothes and light hut sleeping bags. I also had a backpack for the hiking boots, as I had to do without my back loader so that I could pull the little one if necessary.

The Fully in the other picture is loaded with camping equipment and cookware. A friend only had the tent poles on his bike.

 

[hamster]

@yakboy I started looking at your post and thought the usual 'zombie apocalypse' fatbike bikepacking setup, usually seen pulling up at a campsite with swimming pool.

Scrolling down to the snow made it all looks sensible and justified! That looks like a serious adventure!

 

[yakboy]

@yakboy I started looking at your post and thought the usual 'zombie apocalypse' fatbike bikepacking setup, usually seen pulling up at a campsite with swimming pool.

Scrolling down to the snow made it all looks sensible and justified! That looks like a serious adventure!

It was a serious adventure (and absolutely amazing) and the start of a new direction in my biking. I have some 29plus wheels arriving today for the bike so I can use it for Bikepacking in the summer.

 

[rwm1962]

Geilo. Love that area.

 

[yakboy]

Geilo. Love that area.

This was my first time to Norway in the winter, it's amazing how different the landscape is to Summer

 

[yakboy]

I've never been overly satisfied with bar bags so I'll be trying out the Surly 8 pack front rack this year. My rig is a 2002 Orange P7 which doubles as a commuter.

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With you on the handlebar bags so I bought this...

https://www.bikemonger.co.uk/salsa-...MIzf_S4I7A_QIVlvl3Ch0iagDuEAQYASABEgLiCfD_BwE
Adds a little weight but really keeps things from flopping about

 

[yakboy]

Some nice set ups, always wondered how those handlebar bags affect the cockpit and cables etc. I saw one bike that had extremely long cables between the bars and first cable stops so that his bag could nestle within.

See my reply about the Salsa EXP handlebar cage...it really solved lots of problems for me...especially with the FAT Girvin Fork

 

[rwm1962]

I've ski-packed around the Hardangervidda area & spent a couple of days downhill skiing & camping at Geilo when it was too wild around Finse. Norway in winter is my kind of heaven! Fat biking looks great but think I'm at bit past it now.

 

[hamster]

I've only been on the Hardangervidda in summer!

 

[KayOs]

Geilo. Love that area.

Fun fact: Geilo is also german slang for awesome!