Thread: Mountain bike with pack

Anything over about 10kg on your back will make riding anything other than sealed road hard.
I have had a lot of success with the freeload racks triples what I can carry and still ride of-road safely.
It's worth noting that if you have a full suspension bike you need to adjust the shocks for the extra weight.
I do a lot of my hunting with the aid of a bike,a take down rifle helps a lot on single track.
I often have a 50l pack on my back but use the freeload racks to carry a lot of the contents until the bike can go no further.
The mtb can go a lot of places a quad can't, ESP if you use a nightlight to get a early start.
I have some hooks so I can carry the rifle on the handle bars when the track is wide enough to allow as with the speed and silence of a bike you often come across game that would be long gone if you were thudding down the track on foot. Bigger tyres than you normally use with closely spaced small knobs cut down on noise as well if your trying this style of hunting.

Originally Posted by res

Anything over about 10kg on your back will make riding anything other than sealed road hard.
I have had a lot of success with the freeload racks triples what I can carry and still ride of-road safely.
It's worth noting that if you have a full suspension bike you need to adjust the shocks for the extra weight.
I do a lot of my hunting with the aid of a bike,a take down rifle helps a lot on single track.
I often have a 50l pack on my back but use the freeload racks to carry a lot of the contents until the bike can go no further.
The mtb can go a lot of places a quad can't, ESP if you use a nightlight to get a early start.
I have some hooks so I can carry the rifle on the handle bars when the track is wide enough to allow as with the speed and silence of a bike you often come across game that would be long gone if you were thudding down the track on foot. Bigger tyres than you normally use with closely spaced small knobs cut down on noise as well if your trying this style of hunting.

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