You mean my squirrel defender slingshot?

I'm not supposed to do downhill on my loaded rig?!?

I've thought about adding braze-ons, or just swapping in an ECR fork, just hoped it might be easier. For now it's on the handlebars with some bastardized reflector mounts, but I don't really trust it.

Realized I never posted a photo. Frankly, I think this system works better than the revelate harness.

What I really want would look a little more like this:

YES! Exactly that, but I don't have brake bosses or anything on my fork legs.

That link up looks like a great route! Love the Umpqua, a few of those flickr photos are from my previous trips actually. If you go in June the Dread and Terror section may still be partly flooded here and there, and there may still be trees down throughout the trail. And DO NOT skip the hot springs!

Has anyone seen/made a nice solution for running a headlight with a handlebar roll?

I'm thinking of making a minimalist 'rack' to hold the light out in front of the roll and secondarily serve to keep the roll off the front tire.

I don't think it matters but it will be a dynamo setup on my krampus and the rack would attach to the hole in the fork crown.

Open to your ideas!

Bringing my fly rod too! Just plan on throwing it in whenever the water looks good.

Howdy folks,

I'm Gabriel Amadeus in and around Portland, OR. Born a Yooper. I ride bikes a bunch and take photographs.

Affiliations: Limberlost, Velodirt, Bunyan Velo, Zoobomb.

Here's my bikepacking rig for now:

My loaded Surly Krampus bikepacking getup by gabriel amadeus, on Flickr

And me:

I'm not very good at selfies by gabriel amadeus, on Flickr




And check out some of my recent adventures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielamadeus/

Just did this last night, works like a charm. Thanks!

Yeah, I hear you, 50mi a day is fine on gravel, but the singletrack will be the real wildcards. On my trip through Glacier we spent a full day and a half hitchhiking to buy a new chainring.

I've been pouring over the maps, fantastic work and so excited!

My "plan" is to do the whole singletrack shebang this july. Hopefully shooting for around 2+ weeks. Not being born yesterday however, I fully expect this "plan" to fall apart.

Is anyone familiar with the areas? I've got a few questions.

• Are there other highly recommended singletrack trails along the route? I plan on looking into the Little Boulder Cr Trail mentioned earlier.
• I'm trying to whittle the whole length down a bit to under 600mi. Just N of the North Shore Lodge on the main route there is a Dollar Cr Trail that heads west over to the North Fork of the Gold Fork. It would cut off ~125mi off the total route. Unlikely, but is anyone familiar with it? Or have other suggestions?
• Out of Galena Lodge it looks like Gladiator Cr trail could hop over to the Salmon River and cut out a bunch of elevation and miles. I'm assuming this would be a bunch of HAB if it's even open to bikes at all?
• I'm interested in hearing about that Atlanta > Alturas connection once the hordes hit the trails too.

Cheers, thanks!

Here's my solution:


Untitled by gabriel amadeus, on Flickr

Just got a KS post as the GD pretty much sucks, but haven't tried it out yet. Not many options for the krampus 27.2 size.

Depending on the seat height it's REALLY close to the wheel in the lower position.