wel...just like http://www.m-gineering.nl/nbt.htm


have one for years now.works great.

Bas

Kinda those thingies

https://www.alpkit.com/products/pair-of-phud-buckles

Cheers

B@s

jeah, online again.

I hope you did have a nice trip.

tnx

Bas

hmm, same product I've been using for years now.
What I do see on this design, the legs are cut way tight, wont work well with suits and jeans. The rain flap on the side zippers is way to small, this will leak on most occasion.
Also, ad velcro straps at the lower part of the legs, to get a tighter fit. And put a pair of hooks to attach the legs to your shoes.

There are a lot of alternatives in this market for this type of product. Some are a lot cheaper, with the same features. And some a bit more expensive, witch are lighter and more durable.

cheers

Bas

(indeed, Dutch, so cycling is a second nature, year round)

The problem in my mind isn't the bags but rather the racks which seem impossible to engineer without breakage. Then you really are screwed. Not having the fear of broken racks is a big load off.

Well, I've worked at a cycle traveling shop and some friends stil do. Tubus racks or the OMM racks will not brake. The oldschool racks on Koga-Miyata do break.

On my heavy touring bike (steel mtb with suspfork and 26" wheels) I heaver a nice rack rear rack and a OMM frontrack. I can hurl 4 backrollers and a 40 ltr roltopbag with gear for 2 persons with it with no issues for 14 years now. Also used this bike with load on some mtb trails in the southern Netherlands.

Basicly, the story of broken racks is commonly aplied to cheap racks. and yess seen alot of these in the bikeshops were I've been working.

I think you didn't look at the website...



Thats a trip in the high-atlas mountains in Marocco.

and yes they had been riding the great devide with the new Santos 29 pinions...



btw thats the canadian rockys.

I take my bike-packing bags for short trips, and for longer trips I'll take my bags-n-racks.

btw, Elmar works in the travelcycling industrie.

Bas

hmm, friends of me have cycled almost on any part of the globe, no worries with panniers and rack:









http://fietsjunks.nl/

Just a different approach.

Cheers

Bas

Love that photo.  Is that from the Rivendell website?  (LOL)  I'd like to know more about those tires...I wonder how many flats they had with rubber from that period? 

its from a magizine from these guys
http://www.v-cc.org.uk/index.html

Bikepacking bags if anything have spawned an innovation in bicycle touring set ups of ALL sorts and opened the doors to terrain that was previously difficult to travel with traditional touring kit.

Bicycle touring in Norway in 1890... so Bikepacking is not really new.

From that point the bicycle touring took of, resulting in the usage of panniers.

Cheers

Bas

The bags are made from Tarpaulin (Classic series), same as with lorries. Wlded with HFW, see also https://www.ortlieb.com/en/technisches/verschweissung/

Bas

I've owned (and own) to many WWB (Wind-waterproof Breatable) jackets. My current jackets I use most are:
Arc zeta ar, Montane Minumus, Marmot Precip jacket, Bontrager eVent jacket, Bontrager stowaway jacket, Mountain Hardwear Argon Jacket... and some others.

eVent jacket is by far the best breathable jacket, the Montane pertex jacket seconds that. The Arc' jacket goes with me when I am camping out with just the big-backpack while hiking. Smallest Bontrager jacket breaths the least but is very small and neon-yellow thats my jackets to go to my work. Precip jacket is somewhere in the middle, bit heavier, bulkier and more city orientated. the MH os my currentl oldest jacket (7 years in use) and goes with met in bad weather when I do not want to use my Arc jacket.

When I am going some where not waring a WWB jacket but expect the chance to spend much time outside I take my Montane with me, fit is superb, breathes wery good.

Also owned some stuff from RAB, as they are Brittish (like Montane, Berghaus) they do know a thing or 2 about faul weather... they are really rock solid, good stuff at the right price points. Fit and finnish are great.

Pants are a mix, use a Precip pant most of the time, sometimes use a fullside zipped TNF pant with stuf on it that they cannot call Gore (its the same stuff) and it lasts for year (17 years now if Iam correct). also some tighter fitted gore trouwsers, brand... dunno.

Cheers

Bas

https://www.montane.co.uk/en/men/clothing/waterproof/minimus-grand-tour-jacket the most packable and breathable jacket I've owned so far.

On the bike I can be wet from the rain during a ride, as long as I can change after the ride.

AVID BB7

https://www.sram.com/avid/products/bb7-mountain-mechanical-disc-brake


Bas

'oi Foxxy. Bontrager hubs have the same setup as DT. The spare parts are the same as rglhe 240 series in most cases

Bas

 

nice writing. tnx

Cheers Bas 

I do still use a different setup with two xeccon s14 units when doing a longer nightride. One on the helmet and on on the handlebar. Personally I would take a lightning kit with a seperate battery pack over a flashlight.

The new Fenix lights look awesome, Lupine is great and pricy...

Bas

Armytek Vikings attachet to my helmet for an instant nightride. on 400 lmns it gives a lot of light at a long batttery life, at 1000lmns you see very much in the woods.



Bas

check these guys. http://www.bicycle-junkies.com/ I think ypu'll find a good answer there. Vaude and Ortlieb are equally good.

http://www.bicycle-junkies.com/

for night biking on the mtb with a few friends I use a pair of Xeccon s14 lights with different sets of batteries. For day to day uses and slower biking I use a fenix bc30 running on two 18650 cells of my old trusty Armytek viking with a custom handlebar mount.

on the touring bike I use a SON hub with the B&M aa battery light to charge my batteries for my camera etc.

Bas