We spend tens of thousands more for lighter bikes. Yet we add weights unneccesarily by putting:
1. Stickers
2. More water bottles
3. Bike carriers
4. Luggage for bike packing
Yesterday, I bought watermelon at Morong at the Manila East Road. It is rather large maybe selling P200 in our town. It could have weighed 4 to 5 kgs. It would not fit into a backpack and so had to be in large plastic bag (illegal now) slung from the handle bar. Therefore the handling of the bike was quite different and oscillated when ascending hills.
So this post read posts on bikepacking and the advice was to load only 5 kg max front and back. It has to be light. The test was could you comfortably lift the bike if forced to carry your bike. If you were to walk a hill a ravine or walk up to Roro.
So travel light. Light is might.
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