I suspect that this thread will not reach 990 posts, but give it a few years and it might.

You will have to guess which one of these bikes is mine. All but two of them has four panniers. I thought this was normal, but after reading some of the ultra-light stuff on other threads, it is obvious that every bike in this photo is owned by a closet hoarder that carries a spare kitchen sink in case their primary kitchen sink springs a leak.



The gal in the photos below was on year seven of her extended bike tour when I met her, she said her bike had over 100,000 km on it. She had not been to Antarctica or South America (yet?), but had been on virtually every other continent, some continents more than once. She was packed heavier than me.