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!
- 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