>>1806908But did you think about how much more social media updoots you can farm with cool, modern hippster bags?
In all honesty though, i've bikepacked with bikepacking bags and also with panniers. Bikepacking as in packing light, not necessarily using bickepacking style gear. Panniers are a million times better because of easy acces to your stuff and they are waterproof. If you go 20min faster over 100k but need 20min more to access / store your equipment then what did you gain?
The speed difference (often cited because of aero benefits) is also negligible as it does not make a difference when you haven't maxed out your hours ridden per day already.
And then i see people riding less than 100k per day in maybe 5 hours of riding time and they NEED bikepacking style gear to be faster.... just ride more lmao.
