Semantics: Bike touring vs bike packing
02-25-19, 08:13 PM
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02-25-19, 11:39 PM
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When you start rambling on about a government conspiracy that put you in that situation.
02-26-19, 12:08 AM
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well obviously he's a mobile medical consultant for the VA. on the rear rack is a self-propelled rigid sigmoidoscope with kinetic suppository.
02-26-19, 12:25 AM
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I rode my bike thru the whole BC, including a night in Hope, June 7th. Nice town with lots of fast food and a DQ, ha.
And look Ma NO HELMET, the whole trip. The next day I got DROWNED under my cape, going 32 miles to Chilliwack. Then I staggered and sloshed into their DQ. LOL Funny thing is, that was my second fastest avg day.
Did the whole way to the Port Mann bridge on the Tran-Can freeway for CARS too, LOL zooooom.
22 days from Edm. to Stanley Park.
My 120 pounder is NO weenie packer rig. LOL
And look Ma NO HELMET, the whole trip. The next day I got DROWNED under my cape, going 32 miles to Chilliwack. Then I staggered and sloshed into their DQ. LOL Funny thing is, that was my second fastest avg day.
Did the whole way to the Port Mann bridge on the Tran-Can freeway for CARS too, LOL zooooom.
22 days from Edm. to Stanley Park.
My 120 pounder is NO weenie packer rig. LOL
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02-26-19, 03:26 AM
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02-26-19, 09:39 AM
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Bikepacking conjures images of campfires, gravel, new bikes, photo opportunities with other attractive young people, adventure and trendy hashtags. It's fun.
Touring is retirees, 10,000 word ride reports, old bikes with cat-litter panniers, trucks, state highways and sleeping in gross campgrounds next to RV generators.
Touring is retirees, 10,000 word ride reports, old bikes with cat-litter panniers, trucks, state highways and sleeping in gross campgrounds next to RV generators.
02-26-19, 10:14 AM
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Perhaps a more pragmatic demarcation: On a bike tour, your most likely cause of serious injury or death is an automobile, FUV, pickup-truck, or RV, or small-town-based meth-head. On a bike-packing trip, your most likely cause of serious injury or death is grizzly bear mauling, moose-trampling, or mosquito- or tick-born diseases, or backwoods-based meth-head.
02-26-19, 11:19 AM
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02-26-19, 05:00 PM
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Bikepacking conjures images of campfires, gravel, new bikes, photo opportunities with other attractive young people, adventure and trendy hashtags. It's fun.
Touring is retirees, 10,000 word ride reports, old bikes with cat-litter panniers, trucks, state highways and sleeping in gross campgrounds next to RV generators. It's stodgy.
Like reading a french ride report versus an english ride report. Have the same basic info but there is a certain je ne sais quoi [gesticulates wildly] to the french one that just makes it appeal to a different group of people.
02-26-19, 05:24 PM
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02-26-19, 05:51 PM
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Bike touring is if Chris Wallace, Chuck Grassley and Tucker Carlsen in bow tie mode went traveling on bikes.
Bikepacking is the Party Bros on Watters World.
Bikepacking is the Party Bros on Watters World.
02-26-19, 11:21 PM
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Now, I see.
It's the trendy, cool factor that is important. I also read in this forum, I believe: "If no one sees you riding a fixie, is it still cool?"
I am passed following trends, unless they happen to improve the trip.
So:
Beards itch, so I don't have one
I've never found a tattoo interesting enough, so I don't have one
I am a meager working stiff, so expensive trends are beyond my means
I like to sleep comfortably, so minimalist is out of the question
My bike is a mode of transportation, so having more than 1 bike of the same genre is excessive
I was once a 'hipster', but I used up all my cool credits, so I guess I am a fred with many fond memories
But appreciate all the input, makes me want to go to the LBS and look at the bike packing gear.
Cheers
It's the trendy, cool factor that is important. I also read in this forum, I believe: "If no one sees you riding a fixie, is it still cool?"
I am passed following trends, unless they happen to improve the trip.
So:
Beards itch, so I don't have one
I've never found a tattoo interesting enough, so I don't have one
I am a meager working stiff, so expensive trends are beyond my means
I like to sleep comfortably, so minimalist is out of the question
My bike is a mode of transportation, so having more than 1 bike of the same genre is excessive
I was once a 'hipster', but I used up all my cool credits, so I guess I am a fred with many fond memories
But appreciate all the input, makes me want to go to the LBS and look at the bike packing gear.
Cheers
02-27-19, 04:02 AM
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It can be interesting to delve past the cliches in various ways. To see the dufus side of the hipster goofs, for example. Or the complexities, humor and intelligence hidden behind the so-called Fred's surface appearances. And to take that further....
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03-02-19, 01:23 AM
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HS!!. I have now seen the extreme video of No-bikepacking, bike packing.
Called: '142 Miles From Monday' by Outside TV.
These guys had a support vehicle carrying all their gear and when the vehicle was late one evening they were practically crying..
These are the people I was talking about.
Called: '142 Miles From Monday' by Outside TV.
These guys had a support vehicle carrying all their gear and when the vehicle was late one evening they were practically crying..
These are the people I was talking about.
03-02-19, 08:09 AM
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03-02-19, 08:26 AM
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