Bike Talk - 4XPEDITION Team 4X Community Forum https://4xpedition.com/community/bikepacking-bike-talk/ Private forum for 4XPEDITION Team 4X Community Members en-US Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:43:38 +0000 wpForo 60 Small steps while thinking about big dreams https://4xpedition.com/community/bikepacking-bike-talk/small-steps-while-thinking-about-big-dreams/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 21:44:12 +0000 I have something like a lotto fantasy about a big ride,  maybe I'll work out how to make it happen before my body falls apart even without the help of quitting my job first 🤣  but today my wife and I went for our first proper bike ride of the year.    It wasn't the first warm day or even the first comfortable day for a ride we just have had a lot else to do and it never quite worked out.

Heck of a fun ride,  about 20 miles round with a pub and grub along the way.     Best kind of Saturday in other words!

Every time I get to take a little ride around town I'm reminded that as much as my Salsa 27.5+ bike is a pure fun machine it really catches peoples' eyes in "F-U Orange!" with big ol nasty tires - great for safety, not so great for busy hands when we step inside a shop for a bite to eat.  

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Today was good but in the past we've had seats, lights, reflectors, handlebars, wheels, whole bikes stolen while grabbing lunch.  I have the obvious feelings about that but no matter how I feel it's just the nature of how our society works right now and it's not gonna get solved in a forum post. 

I seriously need to get a couple pub/townie bikes.   They won't be as much fun to find side trails on but a couple cheap ugly bikes maybe with the seats and seat posts and anything else that doesn't need frequent service spot welded on. 

Anyway it felt good to get out and roll today.     And keep thinking about that ten thousand mile ride 🤩 

 

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]]> Bike Talk Shovel https://4xpedition.com/community/bikepacking-bike-talk/small-steps-while-thinking-about-big-dreams/ Old School LHT https://4xpedition.com/community/bikepacking-bike-talk/old-school-lht/ Sun, 21 Feb 2021 23:30:49 +0000 Went to my local bike shop in Hampton TN. to look at a new bikepacking rig. The owner,  Brain asked me what I was currently riding. I told I had a Surly Long Haul Trucker. He explained to me that new bikes were very hard to come by and was curious why I wanted a new bike. Well that's a good question. I told him I wanted to go to paddle shifters, a bigger gravel tire and go tubless. He said he could do all that and how much he liked the old school surly. So for a couple hundred dollars I now have my new bikepacking rig. 

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