Personally I'm not sure if it's safe to tour on a cyclocross bike. For instance, I just finished a week of touring down in Arkansas on mine and couldn't sleep at night, since I was kept up worrying whether my bottom bracket drop was inadequate. Then silly me, I checked the specs online only to find that my cyclocross and a Surly LHT have exactly the same BB drop.
Whew, am I relieved.
Btw, the meth heads didn't get me either, so Squeezie you can't have my Ortliebs just yet. On the other hand I did stumble upon some of the finest pulled pork BBQ I've eaten in a long long time in the middle of nowhere ...Yum

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