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Bikepacking on a fatbike in Eastern Oregon USA. Mixed terrain cycle touring (nicknamed rough riding in North America and very occasionally rough stuff in parts of the United Kingdom) is the practice of cycling over a variety of surfaces and topography on a single route, with a single bicycle.
Hand colored slide of Anders Beer Wilse riding down a road from Filefjell to Lærdal in 1902, [6] on a bicycle with a frame bag and a box in front. The term bikepacking was used in the May 1973 article Bikepacking Across Alaska and Canada in National Geographic magazine, [7] where the writer Dan Burden described 30 cyclists who had a go on the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition from Alaska to ...
Xtracycle Free Radical as fitted to a Trek 820 MTB donor bike. The extended frame of an Xtracycle allows a cyclist to carry large loads. Xtracycle is the name of a company [1] and the name commonly used for the variety of load-carrying bicycle that results from use of the company's products: the FreeRadical kit. [2]
24 hour mountain bike races are where the bikepacking genre began, in which riders are entirely self-supported (see above for road-based bikepacking events). One of the most famous and popular off-road bikepacking events is the Tour Divide , which covers 4,418 kilometres (2,745 mi) across the Rocky Mountains from Canada, through the US, and ...
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Mixed Terrain Cycle-Touring / Bikepacking Also called rough riding, cyclists travel over a variety of surfaces and topography on a single route, with a single bicycle. Focusing on freedom of travel and efficiency over varied surfaces, cyclists often adopt an ultralight camping approach and carry their own minimal gear (bikepacking). Supported ...
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The relaxed geometry of mountain bikes is the foundation of gravel bike frames but gravel bikes are lighter, faster and more responsive than a mountain bike. Gravel bikes also use characteristics of both cyclocross and road bikes for better comfort on long rides and the wheel clearance to accommodate rides done in torrential conditions (heavy ...