Have a Revelate harness on my Woodchippers, however, I don't use a dry bag with it. I pack my tent in that bag and often it gets packed away wet so locking it away all day in a dry bag is not ideal. I do put my sleeping bag in a compression drybag inside that bag though.

Also, use a Revelate handlebar pocket that works nicely with the harness.

second this. Harness is awesome! You can strap your bed at home to that thing lol. Be sure and get the pocket to go with it.

Whats the best seat pack out there that's under $100? Preferably 12 liter. I have seen some sub $50 that got "decent" reviews. I realize you get what you pay for. Started new job........You know the story.

 Received last Christmas and only rode for a few months this year. It is too long for my bike in it throws the geometry way off. 75 bucks plus shipping.

You mean of this site? Not likely there is tap a talk app, or something like that,  to make entries easier.

Yeah. Other sites have mobile views but this site goes not.

Is there one? I can’t find it

Thats what I am running on my wolverine. Good tire. Do you get off the road much with those tires?

Do any of you guys bike pack (on and off the road) with 700x42 or tires similarly sized?

Anyone ride one of these yet? I currently have a Soma B side v3 with a Salsa Firestarter fork. I love that bike. Would be nice to have a longer headtube (so I could use standard Jones H bars in stead of the Jones 2.5 bars) and bigger tire capacity (although I have heard reports of people running 2.8s on a B Side). Size for size it has longer reach, a lower BB drop, longer headtube, and surprisingly a steeper HTA. That last one boggles me. I would think you would prefer a slacker HTA (the B Side has a 68/69). Anyways what say you guys?

There is a strong possibility I will let my ambitions die down and I am not sure I even want to pull the plug. That Soma's been my baby for 4 years now. I would have to sell something to afford a new frame. It's always fun to window shop though.....

All can liners are unhealthy when you melt them off the can.  Don´t do it.  Non bpa liner is most likely palastic.  Melted plastic clogs the arteries in your brain.  Bad idea.  Do you have $5 to buy a stainless steel pan?

Yes I do and am planning on buying a pot. Most likely will be a titanium or aluminum pot. I was just experimenting with various objects when I posted this

My setup.  Has worked well for quite a few years now provided I only need to boil water.   I have an old MSR whisperlite international too but don't often bring it on trips anymore. 

I still love my alky setup. It seems I get different results based off wind and temperatures. One time you can come close to boiling with 3/4 ounce and the next time 3/4 ounce gets you only 140 degree temps. Thats the frustrating part

Since I started getting into bike packing 2 years ago I have only used, built, and experimented with alcohol stoves. I really like them but their inconsistency with climate, wind, starting water temp, and other things drives me nuts. You finally get a system of efficiency figured out and then the next time you use it your system doesn't perform what it did the last time lol. That said I am not getting rid of my alcohol setup as I know there will still be trips where I will prefer it but yesterday I did pull the plug and order a Snowpeak Gigapower stove. Yeah I did it.

I'm trying to still be as minimalistic as possible (is that even a thing anymore once you venture into a isobutane stove setup ). My pot setup has always been a 20 ounce Stanley pot and one of those 18 ounce Ozark trail pots from Wal Mart. The Stanley pot fits inside the 18 ounce Ozark Trail coffee cup and they sit nicely on my Salsa Anything cage on my fork. With my old alcohol setup everything fit inside my Stanley pot (stove, windscreen, lighters, pot stand,) but I am aware that with my new stove setup I will probably not be able to fit a 4 ounce fuel canister inside my pot and for sure not the 8 ounce size. Heck I even contemplated going with a couple of those Ozark Trail cups (one for coffee/drink and one as a pot) since they hold 2 cups of liquid and that's more than enough for anything I ever cook anyways and the lid from my Stanley pot fits the mugs perfectly. Those cheap mugs have a little wider base than the Stanley pot so they may work better on my new stove but I won't know anything until I receive it in the mail and get to test it out. I still want to try and stay with a small pot (20 ounces or smaller) instead of one of those larger pots to keep space on the bike minimal.

All I do on my trips is boil water for ramen noodles or for dried bag meals (Mountain House, Bear Creek etc) as well as my coffee. The rest of my food is usually trail mix or granola bars. So with that being said......I would be interested in seeing other's pot and cookware setups.

 Well I guess this topic probably is going to come to an end LOL. After playing around today and experimenting with my homemade pot and a particular stove I started to notice a black spot on the side of the can. I wasn’t sure what it was but I suspected that after about a dozen to 15 boiled water attempts maybe the liner was starting to burn out. So I went in and fired up my map gas and painted the inside of the can with a flame and sure enough that’s what was going on. I was able to burn the liner out.  So I guess my question still stands was a non-BPA liner a risk but it’s irrelevant now because it’s gone LOL.

I’ve been reading online that a lot of these fruit and vegetable cans that you buy at the store have BPA liners inside them.  I’ve heard these can have health effects and release stuff that can cause cancer when heated. Assuming there’s some truth in that I’m experimenting with making my own camp pot for my alcohol stove and I’m using an old Tumatoe can that we used the diced tomatoes in last night‘s supper. On the lid it says non-BPA can liner. There does appear to be in orange-ish hue on the inside of the can  indicating a liner of some sort. Does anybody know if this is safe to use for a pot for boiling water and general camp fire cooking?

moved to the DIY forum

Mostly hype. The solar panels are so small on those cheap rechargeable packs that they would take days to recharge the battery bank. I have tried a couple of those cheap ones, and they just don't work well.

 You know I kind of figured the same thing but I wanted to get an opinion from somebody who’s actually used one. Thank you I think I will save my money. I’ve got some pretty good battery packs already that you got a charge home but they will charge just about anything on my bike until they’re dead anyways LOL

When I go on an overnighter I take a 7500 mah battery pack for my electronic devices. Recently I been seeing all kinds of ads for the same thing only solar power can charge the battery. They are running around 20-30 bucks.  Anyone have any experience with these? Almost seems like it would take an entire day to charge. My packs currently take several hours of charging in a wall outlet when they are low. Worth the money or mostly hype?

I have a B side. I know which articles u refer to regarding frame strength but every manufacture has issues at some point and time and I believe they fixed that issue. The current models have split stays for belt drive and the new B side has room for plus size tires.

Once you switch you won't want to go back, even for bikepacking. That's what I found anyways. And if you need another gear for a trip just dingle it.

 Yeah I should’ve never switched back to gears two years ago. I must have had a momentary lapse of reason LOL.

 I used to single speed and a couple years ago I got impulsive and switched my single speed bike over to a 1x10 set up. Then when I needed some money I sold off my single speed stuff online to fund other bike parts purchases. I miss single speed badly. So I am going back to single speed for the simplicity of it.  I have a wolf tooth single speed cog on its way. Luckily I didn’t sell off one of my Surly spacer kits so I still have it hanging on the wall.  My only issue is that the same bike that I go single tracking on is also the bike that I use when I go bike packing.  I was just curious how many of you single speed bike pack? I would like to try to prevent switching my bike back-and-forth from one to the other every time I do a different ride LOL.

Winner!

Super light, small, doesn't need a pot holder, can be made out of garbage minus the welders felt and
is an uncomplicated design which equals less problems.
Also works in cold temperatures.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-3IX6inZw

Nice but I am getting a 10-11 minute burn off if 3/4 ounce of fuel using a zen stove from a small 1898 Pepsi throwback can. They are similar in diameter to a small Red Bull can.