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Image 1 — Scrapping 2 Nighter Due to Isaias

Scrapping 2 Nighter Due to Isaias

Was super stoked about having time for a 2 nighter this weekend. I’m a single dad and I wasn’t going to have my kids this weekend, and also had no work Monday. These breaks don’t come up often.

I saw the rain Saturday and thought, that’s ok I can ride through the rain for a day, it will probably be just a drizzle.

Now I’m seeing, 1.45 inches of rain, 30mph winds and possibility of flooding. I was going to do the C&O canal and probably not a good idea with those reports. Hopefully the storm has an abrupt change in direction or something, because right now I’m looking at staying in all weekend and drinking beer.

Darn.

Kona sutra Ltd shown with ortlieb panniers and apidura top tube packs. Old man mountain rack and apidura stem feed bags. Was going to bring freeze dried food for backup and just hit restaurants along the way.

u/No-Particular6179 — 7 days ago

▲ 19 r/bikepacking

Bikepacking and Rabies Vaccine

Never noticed this before, but I was looking into a short bikepacking trip to Morocco over winter break. I had assumed I needed yellow fever and malaria pills since it’s Africa, but I finally went to CDC’s website for travel vaccinations.

Almost every country I was considering for this trip says a preventative rabies vaccine is recommended if you are traveling to a rural area or won’t have immediate access to healthcare if a bite occurs. I was looking at Thailand and Hawaii too, and CDC says the same thing. It makes sense, dogs tend to chase bikes and in more remote areas they tend to be more loose.

What is everyone’s consensus? Just bite the bullet and get the vaccine which is around $1200 to $1400? Or is this something people don’t generally think about. Seeing as rabies has a 100% fatality, I’m leaning more towards getting the vaccine, but jeeze that is going to hurt my wallet.

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u/No-Particular6179 — 2 months ago

▲ 235 r/bikepacking

Pumped for my first international bike packing trip

Norway for 7 days. 5 of them will be biking. There is a day at the beginning and end just to handle logistics. I’ve done a handful of 1 nighters locally so I feel pretty dialed in with the setup up.

u/No-Particular6179 — 4 months ago