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Planning my next small tour

With the com­ple­tion of my bach­e­lor’s degree only a few weeks away (excit­ing!) I want to cel­e­brate the past five years’ hard work with a mul­ti-day bike tour. There is…
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Setting up the bike for cargo

When sit­ting down to plan out the Ride in Sep­tem­ber, one of the first require­ments to come to mind was car­riage space on the bike — how would I allow enough stor­age for food, water, shel­ter, changes of clothes, etc? Being a new­com­er to the world of bike tour­ing, I quick­ly found a num­ber of dif­fer­ent options and styles of trav­el, that when com­pared to the gear I already had, left me with three main choic­es to make: A set­up involv­ing lots of pan­niers and frame bags; a sup­port vehi­cle to accom­pa­ny me and car­ry all my gear; or attach­ing a car­go trail­er to the rear.

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Saturday morning Creswick run

I made anoth­er run out to Creswick today, tak­ing a slight­ly dif­fer­ent route to avoid a long grav­el sec­tion of road­work, and tak­ing in a bit more of Pootil­la and Wat­tle Flat. It was also the first chance I’ve had to field-test the Jakroo cycling bibs that arrived on Friday!

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Sleeping arrangements

Not want­i­ng to ‘waste’ mon­ey on prop­er accom­mo­da­tion that could be far bet­ter spent on the cause, and being an enthu­si­ast of the out­doors any­way, the obvi­ous answer for me has always been to camp rough in, or near, each town/stop on the jour­ney. It’s with this in mind that I first start­ed con­tem­plat­ing a sim­ple ham­mock and tarp set­up. The Snug­pak Jun­gle Ham­mock and All Weath­er Shel­ter fit­ted almost every require­ment that I had…

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