Gear

 As every day flies by I get ever more keen too go bikepacking. Last Friday a Soul seat post bag arrived.  Soi far it looks solid and well made,  how it works in the wild is yet to be determined.  My hope is that it will hold kitchen, clothes and personal care luggage. 

The Soul handle bar bag will be deployed to hold camp  gear, hammock,  pad and sleeping bag. I will use a small pack for food. 

We should then be ready for  overnighter trials.  That is some interesting guides on bikepacker.com that are much mindset to the novice cyclist.  

A "Motivated Bikepacker" should be cycling between 7 and 10 miles an hour on all surfaces,  with daily total of about 120k for pavement and 100k for serious off-road.  These are distances I should be aiming for,  not those I read about for road or ultra race cycling that hit between 2-300k a day. The goals for Novice Bikepacker were even more modest,  20 to 60k a day.  


Today I ordered grease for clipless pedaling.  Clipless actually describes a system used to positively attach your shoe and press all.  The most common system is Shimano SPD. The allow cyclists to apply lift when cycling and secure the for in one position.  Apparently the niggle I'm getting in my right knee is probably from moving my right foot on the pedal

 




 

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