The bike and baggage: Ready for an expedition...

I have different bike for this tour. It's a Van Nicholas Pioneer: a Rohloff-equipped titanium-framed expedition touring bike. If you are interested in the details, you can read about the building the bike in a series of posts on my whispering wheels web page.



Once again, my equipment is almost entirely lightweight gear - stuff which I have used extensively for bushwalking in Australia and trekking in Nepal, and on my previous cycling tours. My philosophy is to carry no more weight on my bike than I would on my back, that is, less than 20 kg, and preferably, no more than 15 kg.

Here are my gear selections and checklist. Touring Gear Checklist

3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 4, 2015 at 9:14 PM

    Nice bike, shame about the chain ;)

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    1. RonKMarch 5, 2015 at 7:14 PM

      Cheeky bugger! Are you glad you took my advice and bought one?

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  2. AnonymousMarch 22, 2015 at 11:42 PM

    Very happy with choice; I didn't need much persuading :)

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