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    What Is The ACTUAL Difference? Touring VS Bikepacking Bikes



    Learn the EIGHT distinctions between touring and bikepacking bikes! 🍾

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    2. VideoRocks on

      Hi thanks for the good video! It would be awsome of you have german Translation Text, because there a technique Information I cannot translate so good, because there are different meaings in the deepl Translater or google…😢

    5. Pedro Claro on

      Touring – tarmac and panniers. Long term setup, world tour like.
      Bikepacking – offroad and streamlined luggage. LIghtweight, think gravel. Short and brief rides.
      But tbh all of this is just a generalization, and people blur the line often. Manufacturers have an idea, practicers have many different ones. Ive seem touring setups be called bikepacking and vice versa.
      There's so many different types of bags and gear, with their pros and cons. Dont be limited by any external ideas, just do what ever you want.

    6. jthepickle7 on

      My first touring bike (1974) was an old Cinelli frame from the 1960s. The pack frame broke in Morocco and was rebuilt using rebar. My bike pack was a Kelty back pack off its frame, folded over the rear wheel. My 'stove' was a wood fire – stainless spokes make for good brochettes. A kilo of dried camel hump got me across the Moroccan Sahara. Missing an oasis almost killed me. I rode all night, knowing I would die of thirst if the sun rose before I found water. I got a lot of puzzled looks in tiny villages in southern Algeria. One could tell that some people had never seen a bicycle up close.

    10. tim porter on

      There's no difference..its camping, using a bike! Listening to all the bullsh*t just makes you open/more susceptible to all the marketing garbage out there!

    12. Leifur Hákonarson on

      I started watching this with the assumption that "bikepacking" meant 1000 mile trips over gravel roads with a tent and other essentials whereas "touring" meant anything involving the need to hang stuff on your bike. I guess maybe I got that wrong?

    15. Eddie Gunner on

      Nice videos mate. I know that we can use any bike for cycling on long terms, i did it with old mtb bike . But now i have Ghost Square Cross Essential so im wondering is it better to go with bikepackin at this bike or classical with paniers and stuff. taking in consideration that i never before used bikepacking, so any advises …

    20. Dan-jc84 on

      shall we not just say its all about the bag set-up imo the term bikepacking is a lighter higher load and touring is a heavier bigger lower load that you wouldn't want to go off road not to say you couldnt.

      honestly these days ppl get caught up on semantics guys just do what suits you.

    27. Barore Por on

      True. Any bike will do: every summer I do a two week bikepacking trip with my "normal" Bianchi endurance road bike through France and Spain starting from Switzerland. Roads are usually paved with the occasional light gravel – in the last years I learned the hard way what spares I have to take along….😜

    28. Niko on

      I rode south and crossed the Panama Canal. When I crossed the border into panama from Costa Rica, I met a few guys that were biking to Panama City. This was a great example of the difference of the ride a bike has vs a motorcycle. As I headed south and went from the pacific to the Caribbean side of the country many times… the guys on bikes were headed south on the main highway, they rarely deviated from the highway as they just didnt have it in them to pursue additional miles and they missed out on the best parts of the country. I did 26 k miles on my tour south of the us boarder eventually crossing the Panama Canal and the guys on bikes did less than 3k. Some times bikes work, but I think adventure and exploring on a moto will get you to more places. Not that more is always better, of course… but

    33. kasa on

      Video is quit se informative, but I would no consider bikepacking bike actual category. If you are going touring in places like Europe or US, you can grab almost any bike that has space for wider tires, gears for various incline and you can attach rear rack to. Ofc, you might not even need rack attachements if you are on very minimal gear and plan to stay at hotels or something.

      For most touring and bikepacking as long as you can get panniers, frame, top tube bag and handlebar bag, it's more than enough.

      Obviously, if you know you are going to bike in less developed places, very harsh terrain often with heavy loads, you ahould definitely pick touring bike

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