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Old 09-23-12 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by staehpj1
I don't agree that most of the backpacking folks count what they are wearing all the time and I prefer to not count it myself.

I tend to count all gear, bags, and extra clothing that is not worn all of the time when on the bike in the base weight. I count the bike, tool wedge with tools and tubes, and empty water bottles, as part of the bike. I do track a base weight, a bike weight, and a combined weight.

I have not found my total MTB rig including the bike is heavier than the road one.
I don't think most backpackers count clothing worn, but the majority (but not all) of the LW and UL backpacking folks do. Like I said, it can get kind of nutty (A guy listed his timex watch on one list I saw just now). I'm more worried about the full weight of the loaded bike, myself. I think for the most part, depending on weather, we're all going to be wearing pretty darn similar stuff. I can't imagine saving more than half a pound between two different sets of roughly similar kit. There are some variables there, but when you're looking at overall percentages, it's just not going to make much of a dent. With bikes, however, you're going to see some big differences.

I won't discourage folks who find it useful to list worn clothes as well. I'm just saying it doesn't matter to me It can be useful, though. I'm pretty sure the list I linked from the TD winner was a full rundown of all clothes, but with no distinction between worn and carried because he's obviously wearing a lot more hiking in the snow vs riding across New Mexico. This would make more sense to me as a valuable metric. I just realized as I was making a list for myself that I was counting the weight of what would be in my jersey pockets.

Tell ya what, just for you folks, I'll put up my list by the end of the week with pictures and FULL weights. Goodness knows I have little else better to do.
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