This afternoon, after running a workshop at the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, Laura and I are taking our new mountain bikes across the Cairngorms for a week of bikepacking and bothying.
Bikepacking is cycle touring without panniers. Instead we’re using tiny, lightweight bags strapped to the frames of our bikes that mean we can cycle off-road and camp in the wild.
Bothies are old empty buildings in wild places that are maintained solely for the purpose of housing hikers and the like.
A better explanation of what it’s about comes from this excellent video from Al Humphreys. Enjoy…
P.S. We’re using Genesis High Latitude 29-inch bikes and testing bikepacking bags from Ortlieb, Wildcat and Cycle Miles’ Gorilla Cages.
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