My solo bikepacking trip from Nürnberg to Budapest. 870km in 6 days, along the Danube river (mostly)

Hi guys, this is my first post here. Ive enjoyed looking at everyones setups and trips, so i thought id share my own.

My bike is a Canyon Grizl 8 CF with a 1by 12speed GRX.

The highlights of the setup for me:

• the Zipp aerobars really made a big difference for me on this trip, especially when riding alone and dealing with alot of headwind. I spent most of the ride on the aerobars. It also offers the comfort of position change when my wrists start to hurt from riding on the hoods.
• the fidlock magnetic bottles attached to the topeak saddlebag stabilizer was also a really good idea. It offers the hassle free access to my bottles and it had superb stability even in extremely rocky and shaky terrain.
• i was also really satisfied with the Canyon fork mount and drybag. The fork mount is well made and robust. The bags are spacious and stayed dry during rainstorms. The bands that wrap around the bags have a sort of sticky material that holds the bags firm while u try to tighten the bands. This makes setting up the bags quite easy.

Disappointments of the setup:

• i use a mixture of AGU saddlebag, handlebar bag and an apidura framebag. None of them stayed dry during the rainstorm. The apidura bag was a new addition to my setup, and it especially disappointed me as it is advertised as waterproof. The AGU bags, ive had for a while and im happy with them, as they are really well made and i dont expect them to be waterproof as they are not advertised as such either. But i guess this was a sign for me to upgrade to proper waterproof bags.

• the fizik argo saddle that comes on the canyon grizl was really bad. Very uncomfortable. Definitely going to change the saddle

• i found the garmin 1040 without komoot navigation, quite unusable.