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I really really really really really (really) encourage you to go to pedalshift.net rather than this page. Lots more bike touring, bicycle touring, adventure cycling, bikepacking... whatever we're calling it these days... there.

Dec 6, 2018

Originally released March 5, 2015 as The Pedalshift Project 015.

The Lab

Protecting your food from critters

  • Panniers in tent (fail)
  • Panniers and smell proof bags
  • Use bear boxes at campsites when they’re available!
  • How to elevate your bags “PCT style”
  • https://youtu.be/qgBLDMuPuvE
 

Gear Talk

Hope you got a chance to read part 1,  part 2, and part 3 of my favorite touring bikes series. If not, check ’em out!

Use this calculator and compare what you have with a swapped out crankset or cassette. I like using gear inches.
  • The higher the gear inches the “higher” the gear (i.e. the biggest chainring on the smallest cassette gear  means you’re at your fastest, harder to pedal into, for speed on flats gear)
  • The lower the “lower” the gear (i.e. your smallest chainring on the biggest cassette gear is your climbing or granny gear)

Learn more from this very smart math guy:

https://youtu.be/qacvtrh-ot8