Ultralight touring ... :)
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Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Aushiker » Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:54 pm
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Any other photos of interesting touring set-ups? Please share them here.
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Baalzamon » Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:03 pm
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Aushiker » Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:26 pm
Ask at YACF. Friendly bunch.Baalzamon wrote:Can't really tell, but looks like they could be thorns.
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby il padrone » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:07 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby J Quinton » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:03 pm
They appear to be cruising around a village in the UK somewhere and she's carrying about 3 litres of water. Plus an extra bottle on top of the rack bag; just in case they get stuck 100m from the next shop?
The phrase "horses for courses" comes to mind. In my opinion they have the wrong horse for their current course.
Edit: after checking out the other forum, I see they are headed to south america, and he's carrying a kite surf: mental.
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby WestcoastPete » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:30 pm
He's certainly keen!
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Postby Aushiker » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:39 pm
Great share ...WestcoastPete wrote:This guy impressed me; he had a folding canoe on his trailer. When he wanted to, he could make up the canoe and put the bike and trailer in it, along with the usual camping gear.
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Not so Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Tandem » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:58 pm
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby il padrone » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:00 pm
St Malo in France actually.J Quinton wrote:A large part of me hopes this is tongue in cheek.
They appear to be cruising around a village in the UK somewhere
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Meditator » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:03 pm
I met a guy carrying an acoustic guitar last year on the road to Darwin from Katherine. He was riding barefoot too, although he did have shoes. I wish i had a picture of those two. One couldn't wear a helmet for the size of his dreadlocks. They were from argentina.
In india i met a couple and the guy was travelling with his electric guitar so he could practice, although unplugged. They were swiss.
I also met this guy from Taiwan who had ridden from Melbourne.http://www.photoblog.com/shangrila/2011 ... -tour.html
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby }SkOrPn--7 » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:35 pm
I reckon I could do a nice 130 clicks a day hauling his load no problem and still be happy.Meditator wrote:Its no surprise that guy is only doing 30km per dya but i am sure he'd be a lot happier if he could ditch some of that junk he's hauling, even if it is all he owns in the world.
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I'm impressed that would be a great deal of fun having a canoe as part of a tour trip that is food for thought so thanks for the link.WestcoastPete wrote:This guy impressed me; he had a folding canoe on his trailer. When he wanted to, he could make up the canoe and put the bike and trailer in it, along with the usual camping gear.
He's certainly keen!
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby WestcoastPete » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:55 am
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Leiothrix » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:27 pm
As long as you don't manage to capsize it.}SkOrPn--7 wrote:I'm impressed that would be a great deal of fun having a canoe as part of a tour trip that is food for thought so thanks for the link.
Then you're up the, err, creek without a paddle. Or bike, food, clothes . . .
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby }SkOrPn--7 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:07 pm
Very true but part of the fun and adventure but having said that I bet I would be the first to do as you said end up in the drink.Leiothrix wrote:As long as you don't manage to capsize it.}SkOrPn--7 wrote:I'm impressed that would be a great deal of fun having a canoe as part of a tour trip that is food for thought so thanks for the link.
Then you're up the, err, creek without a paddle. Or bike, food, clothes . . .
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby il padrone » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:13 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby elStado » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:07 am
I've actually pondered doing a similar thing myself with a bodyboard and other related surfing gear. A standard 26" or 700c touring bike with a trailer for the wet-suit and other gear plus a board mount/rack on the trailer should be all good. I considered something like from Surly as wider tyres could help, but honestly you can usually get within a few hundred metres from the majority of surfing breaks by a sealed or gravel road, so a 35mm tyres will be wide enough and just walk the rest.WestcoastPete wrote:This guy impressed me; he had a folding canoe on his trailer. When he wanted to, he could make up the canoe and put the bike and trailer in it, along with the usual camping gear.
He's certainly keen!
Bodyboards are pretty light and small compared to a foldable canoe, even including a pair of fins, full wetsuit etc it's only a few kg of weight.
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Re: Ultralight touring ... :)
Postby Meditator » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:13 am
http://www.photoblog.com/ShangriLa/2007/05/26/
http://www.photoblog.com/ShangriLa/2007 ... games.html
http://www.photoblog.com/ShangriLa/2007 ... imals.html
I cant' the one about the sheep story.
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