ep. 64 - Bikepacking Basics: You ask, we answer!

Bikes or Death

Patrick Farnsworth

Sports, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Over the last couple of years I've received a lot of request for episodes that address some of the "how-to's" and "what's what" of bikepacking. I've delayed for a couple of reason. One, a personal belief (or lack thereof) that I should leave that to more experienced and knowledgeable people in the community. The other problem, was figuring out a way to deliver the information in a podcast format. I kind of always thought it needed to be a YT video and maybe I would get into that one day.

I believe now, through my conversations with a variety of guest, that everyone has something to contribute, and that includes myself. I pulled in my friend Connor Thomas to shoulder some of the weight too! Connor and I met at my LBS and as we got to know each other we learned that we shared a similar interest in the outdoors and adventuring. We've been able to go on a number of great trips and I know him to be an a person whose passion for the outdoors is equalled by his knowledge of it. When he agreed to record a podcast on some Bikepacking Basics I was stoked, because I think a conversation about these topics is far more interesting that a monolog, and he brings his own unique experiences to the table as well.

In this episode we use a recent trip to Big Bend National Park as the backdrop to answer your questions. Ultimately, we received 41 questions, that boiled down to 18 questions and we tackle them all! The most requested topic was on Route Building, which was really perfect because our trip to BB was a route finding mission. We saved that one for last and answer your other questions as we build up to it, but you won't want to miss "How to make cake while bikepacking" (video coming soon) or our thoughts on e-bikes!

Thanks to everyone for their questions, we hope you find this information helpful, and if you enjoyed this episode please let me know. I bet I can get Conor to do another one if we ask nice.

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0:00.0	Hello, sports fans, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your host. And I'd like to start today's episode by thanking our newest patrons. We've had quite a few sign up since the last episode, which is very appreciated. I'd like to give a shout out to those patrons now. They are Alyssa B. Shout out Alyssa B. She is the person who
0:24.2	actually built the Bikes for Death website, the new website that you can find online right now.
0:29.0	So shout out to Alyssa. I appreciate you coming on and becoming a patron. Jennifer A and
0:35.4	Michael W. Let's not forget Julian L.
0:40.0	And Barry C.
0:41.3	All right, everybody.
0:42.2	That's all of our new patrons.
0:44.3	I'd like to give a sincere shout out and appreciation to them because today's show is made
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1:09.0	thank you and keep it up. So if you do love this kind of content, if it gets you
1:14.8	excited to get outdoors or maybe inspired to go ride your damn bike, maybe that is worth a
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1:25.5	You can find links to all the ways that you can support
1:28.2	the podcast, including Patreon. All right, well, that's enough of that. Why don't we get straight to
1:35.5	today's episode? I'm really excited about this one. We're going in a complete different direction
1:40.9	than any of my previous episodes. And a lot of that is based on your request.
1:46.7	Over the years, one of the things that I've been asked for a lot is more information about how
1:53.0	to bike pack, bikepacking basics essentially. So that's what I'm going to do today. We're going to have
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