In some of my previous posts above, I showed my bike quite heavily loaded. But some of my trips I carry less. In the photo below we probably had only one day of food remaining, I carried the food for two people. Thus most of the food volume was gone and I only had a tent pole bag on top of the rack, everything else in panniers or handlebar bag. (Total roughly 75 liters of volume.) It was chilly out so more than typical amount of clothing was also worn. Since then I have cut tent poles that are short enough to fit in a front pannier, no longer need a tent pole bag.



This was a five day trip.