Lightweight Bike Touring

Discover adventure gear essentials for bikepacking and bicycle touring and make your adventure ultralight.

Lightweight bike touring.

The traditional touring bike however is a. This culminated in a 3 month tour across norway in 2006 at the peak of my fully loaded setup. Tour road s m l and trail mountain s m l. It comes in six different sizes geometries.

Bike touring version 1 1997 to 2006. Best light sets for bikes 2020 as rated by our expert testers. The philosophy of a touring bicycle take as much stuff as you want and we will build a bicycle that can handle that weight on any kind of roads is just the opposite to the philosophy of an ultralighter. As indeed could an entry level road bike provided it was set up sensibly.

Thanks to a new generation of incredibly light equipment and the pioneering strategies of ultralight backpackers it s now possible for the modern velo adventurer to leave the panniers and trailers at home and travel with a b. Cateye ampp 800 front and cateye rapid x3 rear lights. This is a lightweight affordable bike touring set up that you can use for local bike tours or or long distance cycling adventures around the world. 2020 diamondback haanjo exp us 1999 if you re up for packing light and travelling fast you can t go past the diamondback haanjo exp.

I began touring way back in my teenage years on a 26 mountain bike. The medium touring road bike frame bag costs a bit more and weighs 13 1 ounces. The best lightweight bike touring setup to start let s take a look inside the handlebar bag. With a steel frame rack and mudguard braze ons and a wide range of gears.

Endurance and adventure road bikes could both handle a bike touring trip. Below is a brief history of my bike touring equipment showing a general progression towards a lightweight setup. This is far from lightweight compared to the ibera bicycle triangle frame bag but it can carry up to 12 liters 9l larger than the ibera in m size. The entry level touring bike in long running uk firm dawes s well known range is the galaxy previously known as the galaxy al the al stands for aluminium it s built on the same design principles as the more expensive models in the range with a budget 24 speed shimano claris drivetrain 36 spoke wheels and schwalbe marathon tyres which reinforce this bike s intended use as a.

This bike is under 10kg and depending on your body weight will be good to support a 10 15kg load.