In my mind, UL tourist are those that tend to have a limited period of time to be on tour and generally have a 'tour plan'. I'm not one of them. I feel that most of use that use 4 panniers are more of the open ended cycle tourist. We don't really know where we are going, we haven't made a plan and don't know when we will come 'home'. Hence why we take the kitchen sink, waffle iron and the panniers too.