Share your tourer

[Shut Up Legs]

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Where was it? Other than it being at 2000m alttitude, there's not much to tell us where.

 

[steveindenmark]

 

[ianrauk]

Where was it? Other than it being at 2000m alttitude, there's not much to tell us where.

Pico de Veleta in Spain. (3400m). Highest paved road in Europe. You can see the peak in the distance.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Pico de Veleta in Spain. (3400m). Highest paved road in Europe. You can see the peak in the distance.

Ah, I remember you talking about that one. Thanks.

 

[robjh]

If it's pictures of fully loaded touring bikes you want, then there is always the Fully Loaded Touring website - with yours truly's bike at picture #201, by the Danube in 2007.
Here's the same bike in Scotland this summer

 

[Polite]

Mine and Mrs T's on the C2C this year.

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Derek

Great photo! When would you recommend doing the C2C?

 

[toffee]

Great photo! When would you recommend doing the C2C?

In the summer due to this

We did this in August this year and the weather was brilliant the day this was taken. We also had rain and wind. We went east to west on the Hadrian's Cycle Way and came back on the C2C.

Derek

 

[RobinS]

Somewhere in northern Spain on our tour this summer

 

[Dayvo]

There are some cracking bikes here, and wonderful scenery. For me, cycle touring is the ultimate travel/holiday/ride and I'm pleased that there are so many here with the same passion and enthusiasm.

Possibly, in a couple of winters time, I'll attempt the Pacific Coast from Vancouver to Mexico on a Surly Disc trucker with flat bars:

so I'm sharing (HOPEFULLY) my next bike with you.

 

[JtB]

I don't have a tourer, but the bikes and scenery in this thread are really tempting me. Just one (silly) question, don't panniers over the front wheel affect the bike's stability at all?

 

[Dayvo]

I don't have a tourer, but the bikes and scenery in this thread are really tempting me. Just one (silly) question, don't panniers over the front wheel affect the bike's stability at all?

I haven't toured with front panniers, but from the number of hard-core tourists I've seen, it's not a problem, as long as you distribute the weight/bulk equally and sensibly.

For example:

One bloke I met in Australia a few years ago, had cycled from Perth to Adelaide across the Nullarbor Plain carrying 40 litres of water with him in addition to the rest of his luggage.

 

[toffee]

I don't have a tourer, but the bikes and scenery in this thread are really tempting me. Just one (silly) question, don't panniers over the front wheel affect the bike's stability at all?

The bike will handle slightly differently but it is something you get used to. The weight in the front will not be that much. I have a Trangia and plate etc in one and my sleeping bag and mat in the other plus a couple of other light things. No more than 1.5kg in each.

Derek

 

[albal]

On the EV6 a Hausen this summer

Mines the old Raleigh on the left. Cost me a tenner. The £3k Roberts belongs to my ex.

 

[RobinS]

Just one (silly) question, don't panniers over the front wheel affect the bike's stability at all?

On mine the front panniers just make it smoother.

 

[Simon_m]

2016 tour:
http://webm8.com/france2016/blog/iphone-2/0012.htm

2012 tour:
http://www.webm8.co.uk/riddler/photographs_other/transam-2012/day-0034/0022.htm