I have successfully gone on my first bikepack of the season! I have been busy this spring training for a 315km road ride (that I did with this bike a week ago!) so I haven't had time to go adventuring. Since I have an upcoming 12 day adventure planned in Norway in a few weeks, I wanted to shakedown some new gear locally. Plus I've always wanted to cram in a midweek overnighter as a commute to work. It went great, rode about 100km and 1400m total, about 70% gravel. I'm packed like I would for the big trip, just stuffed the food dry bag with work clothes instead. Way more stuff than I needed for an overnighter with lows around 15C of course, but it was a good way to test everything out. Love how versatile this Bombtrack Hook Ext is since it excelled with my skinny road slick tires just the same as this proper 650×2.2 knobby setup. Only thing that went wrong on this trip was being eaten alive by mosquitoes but that's a solvable problem!
by uramug1234
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Oh and the reason for the volle straps holding up my rear rack is because I need to resolve the tightness of the rack mounts, it’s different from how I used it previously on my hardtail MTB. Due to the difference in seat stay size I think I need some rubber space type things to make it fit better. I improvised with volle straps to keep it from sliding down on this trip.
Awesome. Looks like a nice adventure. What are your thoughts about the hook? Is it 27.5? Thinking about getting one as well.
I am just confused on the gps holder, that thing is massive. Awesome bike and setup!
Looks heeaavyyyy
I really like these halve open huts in sweden
Nice bike! I also want to sleep outside more. Hope the Vätternrunda went well 🙂
Looks great, we have a lot of similar huts here in Finland. I’m also planning a longer trip in July, but not sure if I’m going to camp or do credit card trip. I don’t mind camping, but I really dislike a heavy bike.