Originally Posted by
andrewclaus
The thread title got my attention, figuring this would be a negative thread complaining about ULers who tend to annoyingly tell everyone else what they're carrying is too heavy and all wrong. It's hard not to do that. When you've just discovered a method that has greatly improved your life, you want to tell everyone about it and you don't understand when people are resistant to change. You know what they say about unsolicited advice--it only benefits the person giving it.
On our tour, my buddy Jimmy had two Ortlieb back rollers loaded to the max with stuff. By the standards of this forum, he was ultralight, but I made fun of him a lot for carrying a pair of sneakers AND a pair of crocs, and for the weight on his bike.
However, then we'd be at the grocery store and my UL bags were dumbfounded by the angles and size of a can of beans... and I had to put them in his ortliebs. We all teased each other a lot.