{"id":818,"date":"2008-08-28T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=818"},"modified":"2008-08-29T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:08:54","slug":"planning-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"planning for europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been whiling my time away looking at accounts of bike tours, it suddenly occurred to me that my two rear panniers (Deuter Rack Pack I think they are) probably wouldn’t carry enough stuff for cycling round Europe for four months. Even if I lashed things on top of them. There would be water and food and camping gear, and maybe, just maybe, tying everything to the back of my bike would be do-able, but would not necessarily be very rideable. Lots of people seemed to have front panniers. Also, I would really need somewhere to put my camera bag. I could get a basket and tie it to the front of my bike, and put the camera bag in that. This solution wouldn’t be very waterproof though. Or dustproof. Or shakeproof. So I got all consumeriffic and started looking for things online. Then somehow managed to order everything, just like that… <\/p>\n

So I’m soon to be the proud new owner of a small Ortlieb rackpack\/duffel bag:<\/p>\n

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Ortlieb Classic Front Roller panniers:<\/p>\n

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A Tubus Tara Lowrider Front Rack Black to carry them:<\/p>\n

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And an Ortlieb Ultimate 5 Classic Bar Bag – to be padded with foam to provide a nice solid camera carrying case:<\/p>\n

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The plan is not to fill these all up, just because I’ll have the space now, but instead to have spare room available for extra things like food and water – so we don’t always have to be reliant on food shops being open, or water being where you need it. So now I have all the bits I need for cycling wherever I want. Hurrah! The most horrifying part of all of this is that my order came to about AUD$340 (with postage free) – but pricing these things at Australian shops comes to around AUD$700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been whiling my time away looking at accounts of bike tours, it suddenly occurred to me that my two rear panniers (Deuter Rack Pack I think they are) probably wouldn’t carry enough stuff for cycling round Europe for four months. Even if I lashed things on top of them. There would be water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,141,1],"tags":[54,1547,142,145,143,144,64],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-european-bike-epic","category-general","tag-bike","tag-bikes","tag-consumer","tag-european-bike-tour","tag-ortlieb","tag-planning","tag-touring"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["bikes<\/a>","european bike epic<\/a>","general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikes<\/span>","european bike epic<\/span>","general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["bike<\/a>","bikes<\/a>","consumer<\/a>","european bike tour<\/a>","ortlieb<\/a>","planning<\/a>","touring<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bike<\/span>","bikes<\/span>","consumer<\/span>","european bike tour<\/span>","ortlieb<\/span>","planning<\/span>","touring<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 18 years ago","modified":"Updated 18 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 28.8.2008","modified":"Updated on 29.8.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 28.8.2008 12:44 pm","modified":"Updated on 29.8.2008 1:08 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}