Thursday, September 22, 2016

Three, two, one...

The bike is pretty much ready to go. The minim weight goals have, as always, been compromised by the unexpected and by unwillingness to forego some luxuries. While I've decided not to take dedicated camera (phones are good enough these days), the electronics such as Kindle for evening reads and solar panel for charging this and bike computer add up for another 600g or so. Overall the weight is little over 7kg, 1.8kg of which are the panniers themselves (duh).





I may post final weight and gear list before leaving. The start date is set to this coming Monday (if the movers come early enough) or Tuesday (if there's much to do).

2 comments:

  1. Kids these days. Back in 2004 when I did a 6 months tour of Europe (http://blog.buschnick.net/p/soulbiking.html) the total weight of my bike was somewhere in the 40-60 kg range, depending on where exactly I was at the time.

    Godspeed to you! Good choice ;-)

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