Originally Posted by tredford01
In May, I'm going to do my first touring trip from Edinburgh in Scotland to Cornwall in the south of England. Does anyone have any advice? I am quite worried about how to carry a tent on my bike (I'm camping in Cornwall), and how to secure the bike with all the luggage when I go into shops etc.
Your tent and sleeping bag, unless you have a super compressible bag, will probably have to be on your rear rack. The best thing I've found to attach the bags to the rack is to use a ball type bungie cord like
there. Use 4, one at each corner of the rack and cross them in the middle. They are far better than bungies with hooks.