Author Topic: Fully Loaded - Touring Bikes (Read 231041 times)

Joe.B · « **Reply #600 on:** 21 April, 2017, 02:11:14 pm »

Here’s one of the tandem fully loaded just after we’d lugged it up to Kielder Observatory while on a mini tour around Kielder Water and a ride back to Newcastle. It was pretty bleak and cold up on that hill so we didn’t linger for too long. My younger brother is on the other end of the camera and having his first taste of cycle touring. Second tour for mini Joe though.

IMG_20170419_115426939 by Joseph Bulloch, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #601 on:** 21 April, 2017, 02:51:53 pm »

I like that photo.

clarion · « **Reply #602 on:** 24 April, 2017, 11:56:19 am »

Ham · « **Reply #603 on:** 05 May, 2017, 03:54:47 pm »

Fully loaded with <9Kg

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #604 on:** 28 May, 2017, 06:59:55 pm »

Full camping kit packed in there, including food, clean clothes, even a towel! Yup, I knew where my towel was.

Butterfly · « **Reply #605 on:** 28 May, 2017, 10:11:05 pm »

Nice!

IanDG · « **Reply #606 on:** 29 May, 2017, 01:51:02 pm »

IMG_1490a by ian, on Flickr

Another one of my Aravis/Henry Burton loaded on a Donegal tour 3 years ago - Recently I've been riding it less and less as the Genesis Equilibrium and Surly Cross-Check do everything it does but with a bit more at each extreme. So saying good bye to this one and currently building it up for one of my lads to tour on.

mcshroom · « **Reply #607 on:** 30 May, 2017, 12:24:54 am »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 28 May, 2017, 06:59:55 pm

Full camping kit packed in there, including food, clean clothes, even a towel! Yup, I knew where my towel was.

There's a lot of weight high up on the front there. How did you find the handling?

phil653 · « **Reply #608 on:** 30 May, 2017, 02:44:17 pm »

Quote from: phil653 on 19 October, 2014, 04:09:59 pm

Mission accomplished: Portuguese coast by British Eagle training bike transformed in fully loaded tourer. Very close clearance for 28mm tyres forced the rear brake in-board. Note coordinated bottles but couldn't manage lining up the valves too, sorry.

Quote from: mcshroom on 30 May, 2017, 12:24:54 am

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 28 May, 2017, 06:59:55 pm

Full camping kit packed in there, including food, clean clothes, even a towel! Yup, I knew where my towel was.
There's a lot of weight high up on the front there. How did you find the handling?

Forgive me butting in but... A-ha! Somebody else who loads the same as I did Perversly some might say as it's contrary to received wisdom, but I've always loaded with a front end bias. Partly it's down to bodging on to unsuitable frames and that's the way I could get my racks to fit, and partly its due to being on the lardy side so I'm already asking a lot of the rear wheel and loading this way evens things out.
As far as handling goes, it's fine once underway but starting from a standstill the bars feel, indeed are, heavy and don't for heaven's sake try going no-handed. What sayeth you, mrcharly?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #609 on:** 30 May, 2017, 02:54:28 pm »

It isn't as front-heavy as it looks; that yellow thing is a mat weighing a bit more than air but not much.
One pannier is just full of sleeping bag - it a summer buffalo bag, maybe [Edit] 900gm. The other side is mostly clothes with odds and ends. Some museli bars.

The rear had tent, food, tools, cooking gear including pans and stove.

I'm probably going to ditch the bagman and put a rack on the rear, so I can put more weight in the saddlebag, also sometimes I might want to put the panniers on the back and strap a stuffsack on the front.

It handled fine down hills and through turns, ok through potholes, fords and over cobbles. Not so nice at very slow speeds though.

Kim · « **Reply #610 on:** 30 May, 2017, 02:57:13 pm »

Front-heavy is fine. It works well on Bromptons, and most SWB 'bents are naturally front-heavy. It's loading the steering that makes things interesting.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #611 on:** 30 May, 2017, 03:39:52 pm »

A nice but significant distinction. Lost, of course, on the vast majority of uprights.

wood_dweller · « **Reply #612 on:** 02 June, 2017, 08:50:04 am »

Gazelle during touring Southern Europe

ickrust · « **Reply #613 on:** 20 June, 2017, 02:18:01 pm »

In Vietnam
https://goo.gl/photos/wyyaD1u1sNytGJCTA

rogerzilla · « **Reply #614 on:** 20 June, 2017, 10:32:21 pm »

That's as heavily lioaded as one of Charlie's bikes on the Hi Chi Minh Trail, although with slightly less materiel content.

Oxford_Guy · « **Reply #615 on:** 06 July, 2017, 07:13:05 pm »

Not really fully loaded, but with enough gear for a weekend's camping at a local music festival recently (was only 16 miles away). Vaude Aqua Panniers and bar bag, Alpkit Gourdon drybag rucksack to carry the tent, leaving my hands free to carry the panniers to the campsite:

Oxford_Guy · « **Reply #616 on:** 07 July, 2017, 07:34:26 pm »

Quote from: Oxford_Guy on 06 July, 2017, 07:13:05 pm

Not really fully loaded, but with enough gear for a weekend's camping at a local music festival recently (was only 16 miles away). Vaude Aqua Panniers and bar bag, Alpkit Gourdon drybag rucksack to carry the tent, leaving my hands free to carry the panniers to the campsite:

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