So my plan is to ride the European Divide Trail from Wipperfürth that’s roughly where I live all the way to the north cape. My biggest problem is mainly my tent I don’t really where to put it. Otherwise I need to charge 4 items my phone (IPhone SE 2023), my watch, my Sigma EVO 11.1 computer and my Garmin InReach Mini 2. But I only have this battery pack with solar charging do you think that is sufficient? With food I thought I could eat this precooked food from the supermarket or in restaurants. So what are your thoughts please let me know?!
by UwU_I_like_myself
5 Comments
The solar battery is not effective.
Does that rear setup exceed the max weight for the bag? If it doesn’t it will ride badly anyway and sway all over.
Start again with your gear. Shelter, sleeping, eating then the rest. Or get bigger bags.
I think you should get a rear rack. In my opinion you have far too much weight up high on the back. A rear rack with some small panniers and a dry bag on the top (or just a set of larger touring panniers) will make it much more stable and lower the centre of gravity.
The other option for the tent would be to get some cargo cages for the front fork and store the tent in a dry bag strapped to one of those. You might need to strap the tent poles to your frame somewhere separately.
I wouldn’t trust the tent there. Seat bags wobble to and fro, bounce up and down etc. the tent seems unlikely to stay there.
I would separate the tent parts and pack them in your bags. Poles and pegs go in the frame bag, tent inner and fly go in saddle bag or bar bag or frame bag, depending.
Can’t say definitively with the charger but from what I’ve heard unless solar chargers never really work out. I would rather carry a larger battery bank and rely on charging it when I pass through civilization. Or get a dynamo.
The answer is always racks and panniers.
How do you plan to carry water? The little cage on the downtube wont be enough, unless you plan on doing constant refills.