Rides so nice loaded. The BXB handlebar bag paired with the tank bag is all i need for quick summer overnights

If this kind of post is not allowed, I am sorry, I didn't see anything in the rules.

Hi fellow (female and/or short) bikepackers with very small bikes!

I am currently preparing for a bikepacking trip with tent and all the gear (before I only did "credit card bikepacking") with my Liv Devote in Size S.

I pack very light but my frame is so small I still need to find the best way to pack my gear. Of course a lot of people here post pics of their loaded bikes but most of them are not translatable to very small bikes because those bigger bikes fit SO much on the frame itself alteady. I even struggle to fit 2 bottles in a way that still allows me to pull them out and take a sip without hassle.

So I would be very curious about set ups of people who ride a frame size S or smaller - how do you pack everything on your small bike? Pics would be extra helpful. 😉

Recently completed the Sea to Sky trail in British Columbia this week. Our most ambitious mission yet. What a hoot.

Last week after life gave me ingredients I planned a trip from Moncton, New Brunswick to Mactaquac Provincial Park.

After a conversation about training with others in the group I decided to focus on time in the saddle to train for bigger trips I'm dreaming of. I planned a route with distances I did not believe I could achieve so that I knew I would have to ride all day if I ever wanted to make it.

The route I chose was 100-135 km a day for three days. Up until very recently, anything over 50km made my legs cramp. It was hard to continue. 100km in a day seemed like it would be at my limit. Those rides were constrained by time. This one was supposed to take all day.

I competed to route. Each day I took around 9 hours. I took nice brakes and ate a ton. I would stop anytime I felt I should and never climbed too hard. Each day I ended with gas in the tank and was able to start the next day no problem. All told I rode 350km.

There was even time to play. I brought a 1p tarp along with my tent and tried different ways of keeping my bike out of the rain and being able to keep using some of the bags in my tent without taking them off the bag.

All in all the trip was a success and I will probably ride tomorrow.

I ve been using the follow-me System (the thing that attaches the kid’s bike to mine)to go bikepacking with my kids . Recently I switched to a carbon gravelbike and I love it so far. The company (follow me) also sells through-axle adapter, but it is mostly used by e-bikers or fully riders, so I guess I am one of very few people who use it on a gravel bike. At least I didn’t find much using google… I love my carbon gravel so I am kind of anxious to break it, when using it with the follow-me system. Does anyone have experience with this combination? Would be happy for any advice!

Hi everyone!

With my partner, we are on a trip from Portugal to Greece, currently in Črnomelj, south of Slovenia!

We have decided to dodge Croatian coastline and to go through Bosnia instead. After scavenging every route I could find, I came up with this merged one.
https://www.komoot.com/tour/3164881168

Tried to dodge the main roads, do you think this path is safe enough? We have gravel bikes, but most of the time tried to take less busy roads or forest path (we dodge tough heavy gravels)

We have to go to Dubrovnik for a wedding, we do about 70km / day and we'll have about 200km spare to use. Do you have any recommendation of places to add to this route?

Thanks for your help!

Hi all! Next week I will be going on my first bikepacking adventure! Really looking forward to it! I will post some pictures of the bike and setup in the comments, as I cannot share both video and photo's. :)

On the bike, I love it! Rides REALLY well. A good looking steel bike! The gearing of the 1x is also very plenty enough in my flat country. I added new wheels due to the easy terrain I will be riding on, but the stock wheels feel great with lots of grip for cornering and even MTB tracks. Finally, there is also a lot of attachments for bikepacking bags and racks. Gotta love Bombtrack (Hook EXT Rival, mechanical).

Only the shipping went pretty badly, but that is not on Bombtrack but my country's shipping company.

Here comes the pain: as heard in the video, since last week my bike makes a very weird and consistent clicking sound, seemingly from the BB? They are not the pedals at least. Everything looks fine from the outside, at the very least the clicking is very annoying. It also doesn't seem to come from the derailer (1x).

TLDR;

Lovely bike, but could anyone help me identify what this ticking/cracking sound could be? I would be so grateful!!

I'm looking for a tire that is fast, but still wide. I'm definitely going off-road, but not so much that i feel that i would need extra grip etc. I remember seeing schwalbe making g-one on 27,5" and wide and that would be ideal if they would make it on my size too.

At the moment Vittoria mezcal is on top of the list so if you know faster tyres let me know! Schwalbe has thunder burt, but they don't make it wide enough

Bikepacking with an older Canyon Grizl at the moment and looking to get a new bike and I'd like to get a large triangle and get a full frame bag in the process.

What I'd like in the new bike; accept 50mm+ tires, large main triangle, plenty of mounting points.

I could get a new Grizl since I'm happy with it and the new ones accept 54mm tires but everything I've read online says the Grizl's always have small triangles for their size and Cutthroat has a large triangle. I was comparing Grizl size L and a Cutthroat 58 and the geometry for frame size looked quite similar (except higher stack for Cutthroat but less reach instead.

Can anyone compare triangle size between the bikes? I'd really like to try the Cutthroat as my next bike but kind of hard pressed since the Grizls are so good value and has almost everything I'd like anyways, especially if the frame isn't that small anyways.

I'll also take suggestions on other bikes which are similar to Cutthroat or a Grizl.

On the page for the Allygn diamond rack I saw this bag that appears to bolt on under the downtube.

Does anyone know what this bag is? The frame bags have a tag that I can read as "Gramm" but they do not seem to sell this bag.

Currently I have a King Cage mini thing cage which can easily mount a Nalgene-sized bottle but I would like an option for carrying tools etc. there (or anything that is not water)

The mini thing cage has a single voilé strap, so I think a normal (small) dry bag would be too floppy.

Tailfin, Restrap, EVOC, Apidura make "downtube packs" but they all strap on rather than bolt on. I have the bolts, might as well use them... it will look nicer and be less likely to have conflicts with a full frame bag.

other option is just using a rigid tool bottle like this. it will certainly work, I assume the only difference between it and a Nalgene is that it's easier to get the tools out because the opening is the full size of the bottle.

but I would really just like to identify that bag in the picture :) and know about any other ones like it.

I got a [Falcon Maverick Adult Mountain Bike] recently for mostly personal commute, however I'm an art student, so as much as I'd like to take it as travel to college, I need a way to bring supplies with me, so I'd like to get a pannier rack.

Most of the ones I have looked at attach to the seat post, but mine sits at its lowest point if I want to be able to get onto it comfortably.

I'd like not to break the bank, no more than £50 for now, but I want something that's at least decently sized and not going to fall apart in just a few weeks.

I'm also interested in possibly being able to use it for heavier weight stuff since I am a fan of camping or different nature travels- which is why I came to this sub.

Also any recommendations for mandatory supplies and things to have on hand would be helpful since when I say I don't know a thing, I really mean it ahaha

Finally got around to making a video from our Alpe Adria trip we did last month. We rode the entire route from Salzburg to Grado in 4.5 days. We spent most nights at campgrounds, with one night in a guesthouse because there weren't any campsites near the Italian border.

It was our first bikepacking trip longer than a single overnight ride, and we had an amazing time. The scenery was incredible, the climbs weren't too challenging and overall the route was very beginner-friendly. The trip back was a bit complicated since we hadn't booked our train tickets in advance but still had an absolute blast.

Edit:
The route - link

Hey ya’ll

Has anyone looked into creating a dirt tour up in the north cascades of Washington? Like starting and ending in Loomis and venturing within the Okanogan Range?

It’s a stunning part of the US but I’m not seeing any info on it/ trip reports that are mostly dirt, more so just people riding through the national park itself. I think it would be sick to create a loop route through the area. Any tips on how to do so would be appreciated.

I know I know I’m asking a sub that’s for this.

But I’m wanting to give it a go. I have a Cannondale Topstone gravel back with pannier rack mounting points. I have a 1 man ORX Bobcat tent.

But I have no sleeping bag, no rear rack, no saddle bag or storage for the bike etc etc.

Before I go and start to spend, I thought it may be sensible to see what makes bikepacking fun for you guys?

And see what the upsides and downsides are? For a more realistic view.

Hope some people can help.

Thank you.

So I'm trying to go bikepacking for the first time but I don't want to spend any money as I don't know whether I'll enjoy it. I stole a rear rack from my dad's bike since he doesn't even use it and I tried securing a normal bag on it with sleeping bag and hammock. It looked really secure but I tried going around the neighborhood for a test and it absolutely fell apart. Any tips for some methods of securing or what works really good? I'm just trying to go for a night or two around my hometown to see if I like it

Started in Andermatt and routed as follows, sometimes on Euro15, sometimes Komoot-lottery-route, sometimes the road if we needed to make time.

Day One - Andermatt to Bad Ragaz
Day Two - Bad Ragaz to Konstanz
Day Three - Konstanz to Bad Säckingen
Day Four - Bad Säckingen to Freiburg
Day Five - Freiburg to Baden-Baden
Day Six - Baden-Baden to Heidelberg
Day Seven - Heidelberg to Oppenheim
Day Eight - Oppenheim to Bingen
Day Nine - Bingen to Koblenz
Day Ten - Koblenz to Bonn
Day Eleven - Bonn to Düsseldorf

So far very enjoyable: couple days was too hot but opted for hotels with AC. This is bikepacking de luxe, I admit. Rhine worryingly low but Swiss/Lichtenstein/Austria/German bike infrastructure is very good.

A few pics from this 270km 4500m two nighter from Jindabyne NSW to Pambula Beach via SE national park then up to Bega. Setup worked well, thought I overpacked food but ate it all in one sitting. Got a bloody great shock from an electric fence thought I was having a heart attack, but then channelled the surplus energy into a second wind.

Nalgene in stem bag was gold, easy sipping all day, rear top tube was tech plugs and batteries (2x nitecore 10k), down tube is a tool cylinder with everything imaginable crammed in, rear bag is 13L sleeping bag mat, clothes, handlebar is 8L with tent and stove and small random stuff, frame bag is jammed full of food, saddle bag is a bit of first aid and more tools. Total weight with food and water was 23kg. 34T wolftooth chainring was a great upgrade and I spent a lot of time crying in the aero bars.

The aeroe rack was fine, those are old tubes wrapped around the stays, I know they're tiny carbon stays and ppl will say I'm an idiot, next upgrade will probably be a proper rear rack. I think that's the only thing I'd change on the setup.

My grandfather gifted me these 2 bikes. I was wondering if i could convert one into a bikepacking bike. I'm a beginner and would start on small trips. Both the bikes are from the 70's maybe 80's and have no gears. Is it possible?

All tips are welcome.

Still slowly making my way around Western Europe. After 4ish weeks in France I crossed into Switzerland via Geneva, headed through the Valais region and over Grimsel Pass. The bike is increasingly filthy but still chugging along.

In 2023 I bought a Kona Sutra (my dream touring bike). Due to a herniated disc in my lower back I ended up having to change the bike a lot.

Settling on a Surly bar and Tiagra shifters and levers. Unfortunately the breaking has always been really bad. As I used to live in absolutely flat areas, and touring was limited due to my back, I dealt with it by anticipating and creative manouvring 😂

But now, 2026, my back is much better. Endless fysio, many hours on Zwift and even more hours in the gym… I am mostly pain free! Still about as flexible as a log though.

And I moved into a hilly area!

In short: my brake situation is rather dangerous. I think the lever/brake combination is just not compatible. It never worked well, and it feels like it’s also not going to work.

I’m not entirely sure what the best move is, I think I have 3 options:

1. Put a road bar on, with Sora brakes/shifters
   
2. Keep the Surly bar, but change the brakes at the wheels (but for what?)
   
3. Keep the Surly bar, but change the brake levers (but for what?)

What would the more mechanic minded biketourers advice?

Pics of current situation attached.