Lightweight Bike Touring Setup

Below is a brief history of my bike touring equipment showing a general progression towards a lightweight setup.

Lightweight bike touring setup.

It s just 9 2kg 20lb. With a steel frame rack and mudguard braze ons and a wide range of gears. Tour road s m l and trail mountain s m l. Bike touring version 1 1997 to 2006.

This hilite touring bike will suit the minimalists who like panniers. Your mountain bike setup to be under 12kg. Read more for more assistance with figuring out which gear tools equipment and clothing is essential for your bike tour please refer to the bicycle touring blueprint inside the book you ll. This is trek s longest running touring bike and bicycling s editors deemed it one of the best trek bikes of 2018.

The bridge club frameset has got all the braze ons you can think of including mounts for the surly 8 and 24 pack rando racks. To start let s take a look inside the handlebar bag. Handlebar bags are great because they allow you to access your important and most used items in a. Lightweight clothing and accessories sub 200g but the total suite can add up bikepacking and light touring bikes.

The medium touring road bike frame bag costs a bit more and weighs 13 1 ounces. It comes in six different sizes geometries. I began touring way back in my teenage years on a 26 mountain bike. My recommended lightweight bike touring setup.

This culminated in a 3 month tour across norway in 2006 at the peak of my fully loaded setup. For your ultralight kit aim to have everything under 20kg including the bike. This is a lightweight affordable bike touring set up that you can use for local bike tours or or long distance cycling adventures around the world. For an all round touring setup you could fit some fat 2 4 schwalbe super moto x slicks and fenders and this bike will be great on a dirt road tour too.