Customers have different views on the value for money of the stationary bicycle. Some find it well-built and worth the price, while others feel it’s disappointing for the price, with poor displays and crank threading issues. They say the directions are clear, and the bike is ready to use. The Local Overnighters Project is a unified effort to document and map one-night bikepacking routes all over the world—by locals, in their own backyards.
To give the cotton denim a nice-looking, highly water-resistant finish, I treated it with a bar of Otter Wax. Also, we didn’t require participants to account for a tool kit in the Budget Bikepacking Build-Off rules. The rationale for this is that we assumed cyclists experimenting with bikepacking would likely have a few things on hand, a multi-tool and mini pump included. However, I went ahead and sourced a used set of tools that makes an excellent and comprehensive budget kit. I also used the leftover pocket area of the jeans to make a simple tool roll to contain it.
Mother Nature and Father Climate Change had different plans. An unprecedented system of tropical moisture became the pre-game show before Helene arrived, dumping record-setting rainfall in the region, making the trip impossible. By Friday, when Helene actually hit, communication with the seller (and all schwinn bike the outside world) went completely silent. Internet connectivity was out for a week, the region was decimated, and it would be nearly a month before the roads connecting western North Carolina to Tennessee reopened and allowed vehicular access.
The wedge won out, and schwinn exercise bike I was able to make it using repurposed Cordura perimeter fabric, straps, and a zipper from my old Kona Sutra frame bag I burned with an iron several years ago. Obviously, not everyone is going to have that as an option, but using an old backpack could provide the same base materials. I used the blue jeans—complete with the pocket being a non-driveside knife sheath—and some leftover X-Pac I had on hand for the side panels.
Out of this entire kit, I might be most proud of this $4.50 camp kitchen. To salvage every last dollar, most of the team avoided bringing a kitchen and opted to pack a burrito or something that didn’t require cooking, but I wanted to cobble one together to see how it would perform. After watching and waiting for used sleeping bags to come available on Marketplace, it became pretty clear that one of the most common and affordable models that pops up regularly is the North Face Cat’s Meow. I’m pretty sure I had one of these in my backpacking days in college, but I had forgotten how bulky they were. To be fair though, I wanted a 20° model as I knew we’d be camping in the cold, so I had to settle for what I could find within my $50 budget. Originally used in 1963 to define a road bike, Sierra has a long and meandering history as a Schwinn bike model name.