This sounds super fun! Keep us informed. Also if there is a co-ed trip sometime, let me know. I'd like to go on a bike camping trip.

I do have a small amount of relevant experience with mountain bike camping. My buddy and I mounted racks and panniers on our hard tail mtbs and set off down the Sespe Creek in Ojai, California. We were both experienced backpackers and mountain bikers so we figured we knew everything there was to know. Ha ha.

Lessons learned
- Bikes with 50 lb of load handle like drunk pigs. Especially mountain bikes, with just standard racks and panniers, that you are trying to ride on singletrack. You have to be even more of a weight weenie than when backpacking.
- When its over 100 F, it isn't going to be a fun ride.
- If you have chosen a route that involves fording a waist deep river, you need to be able to lift your loaded bike to shoulder level and ford. Otherwise you push the bike through the water, submerged over the handlebars. Not so good for the bearings. Bikes aren't submarines.
- A forest fire will ruin your whole trip.