Don't Bring the WRONG Gear Bikepacking!

What's One Essential and One Luxury Item for for YOU when Bikepacking?

Packing for bikepacking, is a difficult and intricate problem. It consist of trying, testing, tweeking and tuning your load. Some things may not be needed for one adventure but maybe the next one. Other things may always be needed. While there's other other things that you'll never need but they're always "you'll never know when could need it or not." It's an individual adventure in an adventure.

My essential is the Pocket Rocket and my luxury item is camp shoes.

Just say no to tents with access at the ends. Side door for the win.

You da man!! Thanks for bringing us along. 🤜🤛

The Nemo Elite pillow changed my life. For backpacking at least. Great vid!!!

Hi Dustin, HAMMOCK !! I have a Hennessy camping hammock expedition zip … a recent biking trip saw 4 out of the 5 guys use them …. Come over to the dark side you’ll love it

I have the same tent as John. The trick with the front pole is to angle/offset it after getting the tent tensioned. It's in the instructions but is the last step, so it's an often missed detail. A hiking pole is usually how it's set, but tarptent sells an adjustable carbon pole which fits on a bike very well.

I'm a grounder here in Colorado . dont use a bike packing tent , just rei passage 2. i keep my poles tucked with my frame bag straps. rei Helix pad is worth the weight. befree water filter and Appalachian gear buff is my favorite.

Excellent content - keep up the good work! I'm all in.

Thank you once again really look forward to your videos every week

That's a really slick compact looking tent!

I haven't bikepacked yet, but i hammock when i backpack. Seems to me to be the way to go. Lighter. Don't need sleeping pad (depending on temp) and hammock and tarp when it rains is the only way to go.

I agree with the battery pack. I decided to forgo the dynamo hubs & instead got the Bigeblue 28 watt solar panel. Went on a 2 month rough camping bike trip & never needed a wall plug. I strapped the solar panel across my rear panniers during the day while riding or laid outside the tent on non-riding days and charged my phone & lights during the evening from my 10,000 mah battery pack. I like entering my tent from the side so I got the Big Agnes Copper Spur 1 man with the shorter poles instead. I got tired of many pinhole leaks in several big name brand air pads so I got the old army surplus rubber bitch we used in the 80s. That air mattress ain't gonna leak & it's not that much bigger but a tad heavier than the crappy commercial ones .

Your REI dividend is going to be stellar!

Any time I think I won't watch one of your videos "because I don't need no advice man" is a mistake. What a good trip, reminds me of Oregon :)

Sooo cool to watch, nice edit! Congrats!

I really love your backpacking videos. Greetings from Spain

Think you want the Big Agnes Copper Spur bikepacking tent instead, has more room with a tiny bit more weight, I have one and my friends thought they were so money that they all have one now too.

Bivvy sack saves space. My luxury item is a book and headlamp. My essential item is wool socks just in case.