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I do a little overnighter for my birthday each year. Two years ago my wife was very pregnant and had to go to the hospital so I had to turn around halfway. Last year we had the baby so I skipped. This year got out 40 miles on the C&O Canal with 5 other folks. Nice weather, 50s daytime low 40s at night. Brought a pack lunch for the ride out and got a flat tire within 5 minutes of our planned lunch stop. Good fire, easy takeout dinner/beer run near camp, flat ride home this morning. My knees are cooked today, I experimented with a new saddle and didn’t quite get it positioned right. I also suck at sleeping in tents even if I’m tired from riding.

This trip my first time finally using my matchy matchy vintage Arkel panniers from eBay at least two years ago. I retrofitted them with the modern Arkel hardware. Love the trim detail, it’s the same thing the recent Campandgoslow collabs have been doing.

I don’t understand how people pack less. With the exception of my “optional” camp chair and pillow I used everything I brought minus a spare packet of ramen and a second spare tube.

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My setup for an overnight looks just like yours but without rear panniers (my basket would be full, though).

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If you post your pack list I will critique it.

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Yeah but if you didn’t bring it you wouldn’t have used it.

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But then I would have been cold(er), hungry, or (more) uncomfortable

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for an overnight i think you had the right amount of stuff

for a multiple day trip, you’d probably want to cut some stuff

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Baby’s first real sewing project this weekend! Made a frame bag for my mtb for an upcoming trip. Picking up some better Velcro today, currently using some spare cable management ones for mockup so it looks pretty saggy atm.

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Goddamn how do I fit enough water, food, and nonsense and not have this thing weigh a million pounds

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Need less

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it will weigh a million pounds

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ride rigid and wear cargo shorts

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shit, i’m getting maxed!

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Water filters, one set of clothing, and a very thin and uncomfortable sleeping pad.

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this is where i’ve landed.
i’m just not gonna be comfortable without a thicker sleeping pad, cozy bag, tent, etc.
i also love a fresh chamois every day or at least a spare to rotate in.

i’d have to get all weight weenie gear to ever get a packed set up under 50lbs an there’s no justifying that at my 2-5 nights of bikepacking a year average.

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100% on all of those. Shorts rotation etc. If you cant fit bottles on your bike take a camelbak. You can put a lot of weight on the front of the bike and its all good.

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It’s coming along, though the Tetris is interesting compared to the junk drawer method I did on my old hard tail with the frame bag.

Desert adventure so 5-7l is a lot to try and fit around this.

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Put all your water down low in the frame bag. Use a bladder and have a hose coming out of the bag.

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This is my water math so far, right column is fl oz.;

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Prob going to do the bottle and nalgene up in the buckets on the handlebars, then the bladder in the bag and 64oz lean kanteen like in the pic. I’ve never really liked the bladder hose out of the bag, I don’t think I’m graceful enough to make it work well. I’ll just stop and refill the bike bottle when I need a breather.

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The dedication to insane imperial units here is commendable

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I think oz is an Ozzie measure?

At my SILS right now, he has just bought one of these. Only the second one ive ever seen.

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