Originally Posted by
windupcanary
I've generally heard that that requires 50-80 lbs of equipment on the bike, which made me think I'd want to be able to carry up to about 30 lbs up front and the remaining 40-50 on back. It sounds like the distribution I"m going for should be more like 20 front, 50-60 back?.
I don't think there are many tourists out there carrying as much as 80 pounds on the bike. My last tour I carried almost everything a typical bicycle tourist may carry and my bike + equipment was about 85 pounds. I think most equipment weight, separate from bike + racks + fenders + water bottles, will probably come in between 20 and 45 pounds.