I went to a bicycle travel seminar in 1980 and the presenter used the term 'bike packing' to universally describe all types non-competitive bike rides where a night was spent away from home. Go figure.
I like to put my kit in a saddle bag a seek out country lanes. Clearly, I need to:
1) Coin a specialized term for this specific activity: 'Bike Bummeling'.
2) Create a website espousing and promoting bike bummeling.
3) Create buyer's guides for 'stuff' for bike bummeling (I'm not saying you have to buy sidebar advertising to get your stuff featured in the buyer's guide, but it wouldn't hurt.)
4) Publish lavishly photographed articles of riders' bike bummels.
5) Offer maps of great bike bummeling routes and guides to the best bike bummeling areas with 'meccas' and 'hidden gems'.
6) Write authoritative guides to the optimum wheel size for bike bummeling - almost certainly something cyclists don't already have in their arsenal (I envision a big EA3 vs. 28 x 1 1/2 debate.)
7) Compend industry offerings optimised for bike bummeling: bikes, frames, bars, tires, saddlebags, saddles, GPS devices, sun glasses, socks, dab rings, etc.
tcs
just wanted to say that this made me smile and chuckle.
funny for diff reasons but mostly because how the humour and specific numbered items very much touch on the reality of all this.
well thought up.