Fully Loaded - Touring Bikes

[Kim]

Our Circe Helios by a wheelwright's oven in Norfolk last week.

Has it actually got a front wheel?

It does.  I checked.

[LEE]

Our Circe Helios by a wheelwright's oven in Norfolk last week.

Has it actually got a front wheel?

I assume that brick outhouse is part of the touring setup?

[hatler]

The end.  St Malo to Caen via the Loire. Some great cycling, and a lot of learning for me by sg310, on Flickr

Pegasus Bridge ?

[sg37409]

Indeed it is

[hatler]

Indeed it is

Of course, this is when we crossed but missed each other by about 20 miles.

[sg37409]

Indeed it is

Of course, this is when we crossed but missed each other by about 20 miles.

Actually, not.  IIRC, that was in 2016: I was following the coastline on my "dads and lads" tour, you happened to be in Bayeaux when we passed.  This year I went from St Malo to Caen via a few days in the Loire on my own.

[phil653]

Image borrowed from Aushiker. I thought it belonged here. Ladies and Gentlemen, our first Fully Loaded Fat Bike?

[Aushiker]

Day 1: Esperance to Albany: The Unconventional Ride. Ready set go ... Esperance foreshore before heading out on my 10 day 750 km ride from Esperance to Albany in Western Australia.

[Aushiker]

Day 6: Esperance to Albany: The Unconventional Ride. 750 km in 10 days. Made the inlet having survived the Hamersley Inlet Link Trail log steps.

[LEE]

Day 1: Esperance to Albany: The Unconventional Ride. Ready set go ... Esperance foreshore before heading out on my 10 day 750 km ride from Esperance to Albany in Western Australia.

That looks like the sort of bike that encourages you to sit up and take in the views. 

[Aushiker]

That looks like the sort of bike that encourages you to sit up and take in the views.

It is a fairly upright riding position for sure; much the same as most mountain bikes.

[tom_e]

That setup does look awesome.  Bit of a faff to clear the bike and pop into a shop in town, but I figure you went places without too many people about...

[Chris N]

My Pact in bikepacking/gravel tour mode on the Welsh Ride Thing last weekend:

[Cudzoziemiec]

[Robh]

Very nice! Remiss of me not to have checked it out at the weekend!

[rogerzilla]

Does it handle OK with most of the weight on the back?  My Hewitt was impossible to honk up hills with 36lb of camping gear on the rack, because it wanted to wag its tail.  Its predecessor (a Thorn Nomad) coped fine.

[Cudzoziemiec]

It handles fine like that, probably because the chain stays are fairly long and quite beefy. As for honking, I'm more of a sit and spin (or sit and grind!) type, but I actually find it easier to honk on this than the Pacer (which doesn't carry more than a saddlebag). I think the shape of the bars plays a part, perhaps (these are wide and splayed).

[Kim]

I think the shape of the bars plays a part, perhaps (these are wide and splayed).

Seems likely.  I'm not much of a honker, but I find that it's one thing that my slightly-too-wide butterfly bars are really good for.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'm not much of a honker,

Except on the last day of a tour with no showers! 
I think the French have it right on this terminology:

[Robh]

One last shakedown ride before I set off across France tomorrow. Wish me luck, I have a feeling I might need it.

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[Paul H]

My current tourer of choice, a Thorn Mercury.  Photo on some unexpected bridleway on the way down to the Chiltern Audax last month.


Woods by Paul, on Flickr

First appearance of this bike in this thread, though the panniers have probably appeared several times and the unseen Rohloff has been here on other bikes.

[perpetual dan]

Those two get me in the mood for going further

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[nikki]

Expected bridleways on the way to and from to the Chilterns last week:

[Kim]

Just to be different alarmingly wobbly at about 13mph, here's a fully loaded racing bike at York station on the way to the rally:



(Barakta can have her banana bags back now.)

[ElyDave]

can you use those bottles on the move?