We were really impressed to see these photos of Rudi’s very impressive bike touring setup. This is a very interesting example of utilizing the products together that we represent through 3 of our 4 specialty shops, BikeTrailerShop.com, BikeBagShop.com and BikeTechShop.com.
Greetings from Berlin, Germany. I have mounted a solar panel on my B.O.B. Ibex. Since I do a lot of camping and carry some electronics with me (GPS, phone, mp3-player, sometimes due to my job a laptop), there’s always the need to charge some batteries.
The rear two boxes carry two 7.2 Ah accumulators which serve as a buffer, a solar charger and the rest of the electronics like step-up/step-down converters for the different voltages I need.
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I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebrations. Now that you’ve fueled up on some good home cooking, like the rest of retail America, we are encouraging you to burn up all those extra calories in a buying frenzy. We’ve got a whole bunch of Black Friday thru Cyber Monday Specials underway. Here is a quick run through:
This photo, sent in from a customer in China has a whole smorgasbord of bike touring products including an Ortlieb RackPack XL which is one of our current holiday weekend shopping specials.
Our Vaude Sale continues on through next Tuesday, so I thought I’d post another contributed photo of Vaude bags on adventures. This Vaude Silk Road Plus Racktop Bag looks well purposed on a folding bike credit card tour.
In Herb’s words:
I just took a 3 day credit card tour of the Allegheney Gap Bike Trail from Cumberland Md. To Pittsburgh, Pa. I was able to carry everything that I needed on my folding bike. The rain cover came in handy.
Thanks for your recommendation.
Vaude Silk Road Plus on the Left
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Acep, sent in some great shots of what looks like it could be a rain forest bike commute, but is more likely some day tripping with a Vaude Seatpost Mounted Bag transporting his gear. We’ve got all of Vaude’s Cycling Bags on sale for 10 to 25% off thru Nov. 22nd!
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Last Fall about this time of year, our friend and famed world cycling tourist and journalist Cass Gilbert, rolled into Flagstaff for a visit. While he was here he and local touring fiends Megan and James went up to Southern Utah to do the 3 day White Rim Loop in Canyonlands.
They took some great photos along the way. Quite a few of the shots feature gear that we sell at
BikeBagShop.com including gear by
Ortlieb,
Vaude and
Extrawheel. CLICK on the photos and it will take you to the product that seems to stand out most in the photo.
Cass is constantly up to some adventure somewhere in the world. Check out his great writing and photography at his blog
www.whileoutriding.com.
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Kipchoge Spencer, one of the founders of Xtracycle and the longtail cycling movement has been doing some epic bike touring recently with his entire band, the Pleasant Revolution. The band travels by bike with all of their musical equipment, performing everywhere they go and spreading the word about living car free.
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We’ve heard about a new bike touring bible on the market under the title The Bike Touring Survival Guide. Looks to be a very informative read if you’re gearing up for a big bike touring adventure. 
Don, sent in this great photo of his parrot adapter stand perched on the back of his seatpost rack. With the parrot dominating the rear storage of the rack, it looks as if Don has to ride a bit heavy loaded with a milk crate on his Old Man Mountain Rack (On sale thru Sept. 7 at BikeBagShop.com) and an Arkel handlebar bag perched over it all. I think that Mango is a bit spoiled.
“Mango likes new rack she now has more space to ride. Thanks for the service I do need a type of basket than a milk crate thanks.”
Todd stopped by the shop to brainstorm the best setup for an Old Man Mountain Rack on his Surly Pugsley. While we do offer a Cold Springs setup to fit the Pugsley, Todd wasn’t impressed with the setup and had some ideas for improving it. We brainstormed the idea back and forth a bit and in the end Todd was convinced he could bring it all together. Check out his story and pics below.
And talking Old Man Mountain Racks, I may as well mention that ALL Old Man Mountain Racks at 10% Off thru September 7th, perfect timing to get rigged up for that Fall tour.
“I bought a Sherpa rear rack from you to mount on my Pugsley. Didnt like it. I was up there a couple of weeks ago and convinced one of you to sell me a Cold Springs front rack to try. I had to make a couple of custom mounting brackets to make this work. Check it out at MTBR.com” (or see below)
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