10 MORE REALLY USEFUL BIKEPACKING THINGS YOU NEED

I had a bit of time to think… So here is 10 MORE really useful bikepacking things you need for your adventures. Have anything else you think is worth adding to these? Drop it in the comments below 🙂 PEACE

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-2: mini leatherman: https://amzn.to/3w30IW5
-3: Garmin watch: https://amzn.to/3umH7j1
-4: mountain bike pedals: https://amzn.to/49jiaUx
-5: hydration vest: https://amzn.to/3SMliD6
-6: pump: https://amzn.to/3Ou5sKN
-7: Ass Saver: https://asssavers.avln.me/c/gqjTmIGbMSiW
-8: Tailfin AeroPack: https://www.tailfin.cc/category/seat-packs/?v=79cba1185463
-9: outdoor research helium bivvy: https://amzn.to/48YQRPC
-10: sleeping pad: https://amzn.to/3uiOaZY

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There’s lots of stuff here hello and welcome to today’s video as you all have seen I’m doing a bunch of videos which are tips and advice related stuff from what I’ve learned over the years in doing various silly bicycle things if you have anything you would like me to cover or talk about

Please drop a comment in this video and I’ll see if I can make a video about it and hopefully provide you with some useful insights that might help you for your future adventures and challenges in case you haven’t seen it the first video I did on this series is 20 really useful

Bik packing things now here is a further 10 additional ones to add to that list some of these might sound a bit obvious but I’m going to go with it trust me it’s kind of worth it to think about these things when you’re doing your bike packing trips and

Adventures but yeah hopefully this is somewhat useful for you number one I think number one is really obvious sunscreen skin is our only protection really against the elements and you need to look after it there’s loads of different sunscreen options out there but make sure you’re wearing something

That’s at least an SPF 30 if not higher when you’re doing B packing trips there’s loads of different things out there that I really like there’s the pelan range they do a spray on one and like a roll on one as well both of them are

Great like the smell of them or you can look at something from a brand like life jacket who specialize in doing sunscreens Sun gels moisturizers and like and like stick things for your lips and things like that there’s loads of different things out there that can protect you there’s stuff which is Sport

Specific as well which really helps I prefer the sport specific stuff because it tends not to be greasy or sticky and it doesn’t tend to melt in your eyes and cause you horrible like worse than onion eye pain so yeah number one sunscreen just take some it doesn’t really matter

Where you are in the world please just protect yourself a little bit more number two my trusted and faithful mini Leatherman I think they’ve changed the name of this now it was originally called the Leatherman squirt PS4 uh I think it’s called the Leatherman micro now but basically it’s

A tiny little tool that has a variety of things on it so you got pliers a knife you know filing stuff scissors all that kind of stuff I’ve had this one for years I bought this for when I did the silkroad mountain race years ago and it’s been my Essential go-to thing that

I take on bik packing trips it’s tiny and quite often I will take my granddad’s pen knife at the same time both of them together you’re kind of cover C for everything and they’re two small tools and absolutely fantastic number three some way of measuring something now that sounds really really

Vague and what I’m talking about is heart rate or power you don’t necessarily have to have power for Ultra events and bite packing but it is a useful metric to allow you to pace yourself if you don’t have a power meter it’s worth considering looking at something to measure your heart rate now

This could be a heart rate strap that goes across your chest but what I personally really like is a watch like this one which allows you to measure your heart rate as well this one is a garment injo 2 there are various different watches in the Garin range

That will allow you to measure your heart rate I tend on Ultras to rely on this and power meter pedals as opposed to wearing a heart rate strap because I find heart rate straps get a bit uncomfortable if you’re riding for a very long time the watch is something I

Always wear so I don’t really have to think about it and with this like fabric strap it’s really really comfortable the good thing about this particular one the Garmin uro 2 is the battery life on it is about a month and it’s a solar watch so it charges itself

Up I also like that it has a little torch in it surprisingly useful so often I don’t listen to this advice and I really wish I did mountain bike pedals are fantastic they allow you to be able to walk in your mountain bike shoes way easier they’re not really much slower in

Terms of power transfer for an ultra event from my experience some people will probably say I’m wrong there they’re not really any heavier and they’re way easier to clip in and out of so mounted bike pedals I think are a fantastic thing to use as opposed to like a road pedal system for

Any event that’s bike packing related whether it’s Road or off-road if you’re not using Moun bike pedals you might have to then take a pair of normal shoes to be able to just walk around and do normal stuff but if you’ve got these you could rely on just wearing your mounted

BT shoes all the time if they’re comfortable m by pedals number five hydration vest we’ve seen these growing in popularity in recent years at various Ultras now what I like about them is it’s a easy way to carry more water especially in hotter climates like in Spain Morocco Etc where water is a

Bit more sparse and ultimately you still need to keep hydrating and drinking this particular one is a Camelback Chase I’ve had this one for quite a few years it’s pretty good I’ve also tried out apidura one which I thought was a better product than this particular one bit more

Comfortable and felt like it was more designed for cycling they all effectively do the same kind of thing though there’s various different versions at various different price points this camel back one has a large pocket there another pocket there and then you have the pocket which has got

The bladder in it the bladder in this holds a couple of liters I think and you’ve also got additional pockets on the front uh which means you can put you know additional snacks and stuff in there for Ultras I think these are a fantastic shout to allow you to carry

More it just makes things a bit easier in terms of carrying stuff but yeah well worth considering a hydration best number six a pump which is relatively mini that has a pressure gauge on it so this particular one is a laion one I bought this quite a while

Ago and I needed a pump quite urgently for a trip it’s pretty small you can mount it onto your bike onto your frame and it has a pressure gauge so basically it means that you know what pressure you’re pumping your tires up to I found it works really well because it actually

Works like a little track pump you unscrew this bit here this bit folds down and when you’ve got it down you can effectively pump it like a mini Trap pump it’s a really good little pump I think there’s loads of different options very similar to this one but this is the

One I have and I’ve taken with me regularly on bike packing trips if you’re looking for a more substantial pump it’s also worth looking at frame pumps as well but I like this particular one because it has the gauge on it number seven the r saber win Wing it’s kind of

Hard to say but I am annoyingly a huge lover of this product I say annoyingly because I don’t really want to like it but I have to because it’s very good so this is our saver’s new thing called the Wim wi this is particularly the road one but as a

Clipon mudu guard thing it is annoyingly good got damn fingers so basically you have the plastic bit at the back which is your Fender or mug guard and then you have this Frame that Clips onto the bike effectively these bits go on your rear

Stays on the bike and this bit is to go over your rear wheel I used this for the first time when I did the world Champs project riding around the UK to get to Glasgow and the weather was terrible and this thing literally saved my ass so

Yeah well done ass Savers you’ve created another amazing product again damn it number eight is this this is the tailfin arrow pack now I’m sure many of you know that I am sponsored by tailin I’m one of their R&D Riders who helped test and develop products for the brand I have to

Be honest this is the best bik packing rear pack system I have ever used take that how you want but I honestly think it is fantastic I first used the aop pack when I cycled across Australia in 2019 with Francis and it has been my go-to Essential pack since then why I

Like it is because it’s it is pretty large you can f fit a lot in it and the way that it mounts to the bike so it mounts through the through axle you have a special through axle for it and it Clips on on these bits and then onto the

Seat post that means it doesn’t have any of that awkward annoying Sway and counter swaying that you get with a lot of other bik packing equipment that mounts just purely to the saddle and seat post this is a fantastic bit of Kit I’ll admit it is expensive but if you’re

Doing lots of trips and Adventures definitely worth checking out their range and having a look at the AO pack or some of the other options they make what number am I on so number nine is this the Outdoor Research helium bivvy I’ve used several bivvy bags

Before this one it is a bit more expensive but it is the best Vivy bag I ever used outdoor researchers in amer American company that makes various different products for bik packing and camping and why the helium bivy is my go-to is because it comes with a tent

Pole that basically goes across the front to lift it off your face it’s a really good quality product it’s super lightweight and it keeps you warm and dry and you can also basically have it open with just like a a mosquito net on it as well if it is quite

Warm they have made in my opinion the best bivvy bag that’s out there I actually got one of my mates who lives in America to buy this for me several years ago and then he traveled quite a lot from the UK and America so he bought

It back with him on a flight back then they were so hard to find in the UK now it’s a bit easier to find them but yeah the Outdoor Research helium bivy the best bivy bag I’ve ever used and lastly number 10 in my 10 more really useful bite packing thingss get

Yourself a really good quality lightweight sleeping pad this this one that’s in here is the alkit cloud base I’ve had this for years probably 5 or 6 years now it’s basically a small air mat that you inflate and because it’s got effectively come on so this is

Effectively a small air mat that you inflate by blowing into this bit and it’s like a quilted setup so it inflates really quickly the material is pretty tough so sleeping on rocks and stuff I’ve had no problems at all and the good thing about using a sleep mat whether it is an

Inflatable one or a Pham one for example is that it lifts your body off the ground therefore keeping you warmer the problem that a lot of people have is not so much the Comfort side of it it’s about keeping warm but lifting your body off the ground means you’re going to

Stay warmer at night so an air matat small and compact is a really really good additional thing to be taken with you on your bite packing trip one more thing I’m actually going to mention as well is make sure you have a good quality sleeping bag there’s so

Many different options out there that can package down quite small but also could be huge price points vary massively with sleeping bags in the thousands of pounds to the hundreds of pounds really my biggest thing is to make sure you have one that is rated for a really broad range of different

Temperatures that way you’re kind of covering yourselves if it is really bad at any point or if it is really hot you can just sleep on top of it this one I have here is from pH designs which is admittedly on the top end of the price

Point it is quite big but I bought this for when I went and did the Atlas mountain race and the temperatures were snowy minus 7 it is large but and and the pH design ones are expensive but this is a fantastic product if you’re going to be in those

Places that are a bit more out there in the middle of nowhere there are plenty of options of various different price points for sleeping bags but this is a great example I actually bought it off eBay so keep an eye out on places like eBay for things like this hopefully

These 10 additional things were somewhat useful for you please let me know if you have any other things that you would take with you as essential bik packing things please like comment and subscribe and thank you for watching see you for the next one