Thread: What’s your "can’t live without" gear?
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Old 08-27-23, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul_P
... One thing that is not mentioned is that if you put everyone's great ideas together on a single bike, they weigh quite a bit !

I'm going to test ride an almost finished setup later on today and I can see that without food, water or fuel I'm getting pretty close to 50 lbs for the panniers and gear, not the bike. I've acquired some lighter versions of what I already had, and added or renewed a bunch of other things, but I guess for the moment my style could be summarized as car camping on a bike. Just so many things I'm not yet ready to give up. We'll see after a few hills...

My body has lost around 10 lbs since the spring so I get the 4 panniers and handlebar bag more or less for free.
Then start out with 50 pounds. Next trip after that, might be 45 pounds, or might be 55 pounds.

My light touring bike, below:



My heavy touring bike, below:



The weight on the two bikes is pretty similar, although the trips and bikes and locations were quite different.
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