Yan 

You bicycled domestically across your own first world country with good roads, plentiful bike shops, and three day USPS parcel delivery to anywhere in the country; during a mild season of the year. Anyone can do that on a 15lb bike plus an ultralight kit. That doesn't make the 15lb bike a touring bike. Take that kit to Asia and you'd be singing a different tune by the second week.

Here is Myanmar.


Here is Mongolia



Here's me in the morning melting my water that had turned into a solid block of ice. This was the beginning of October and it was -10F overnight. The stove is burning gasoline. The cooking kit weighs about 3lb. Want to guess how much my sleeping bag weighs?



Here's a Mongolian truck mechanic welding my fork back together.


This is why touring bikes weigh 30+ lbs.