Oh, and and admittedly they're unlikely to replace the, say, Lairg postbus with a bike, but my point stands I reckon. Hmm... or maybe they would..... light fast gravel bike 'n' a 20L bar bag'd do the job nicely I'm sure....

Postbus??? The last of them disappeared last year.

Showing me age . Last time went on the Lairg one was something like 1987 so I'm not a reliable witness...

In the last year I think I've seen maybe a handful of fully loaded tourers and even fewer lighter weight bike packing setups.

I had never seen one locally [ though i have ridden right past someone bivvying once]then one ride i saw three of them
certainly getting more popular as is cycling

Aye up GBV any pics before I waste a lot of time having banter with you

There's a regular flow of traditional tourers going along the south side of Loch Tay when we are up there, never see many bikepackers though. I have seen a couple of groups with soft luggage cycling up Glen Ogle which confuses me as there's an vaguely exciting cycle path on the other side of the Glen!

htrider wrote:Our postie parks her van at the top of the village (plus other villages nearby) and runs her entire round - bloody good training tactic

That is hardcore! But bet she screws her knees up big time

htrider wrote:Our postie parks her van at the top of the village (plus other villages nearby) and runs her entire round - bloody good training tactic

That is hardcore but bet her knees are screwed

postierich wrote:Aye up GBV any pics before I waste a lot of time having banter with you

I have...but no idea how to add them even after reading the how to insert pictures post. Not sure what click the bending thing on the bottom right means. Bottom right of what? Tried on my pictures on my laptop and on my phone and no idea what the instructions mean!

If you are anything like these ladies you will fit in fine here
Untitled by Richard Munro, on Flickr

Is that the Scottish ZZ Top tribute band?

GirlBikeVan wrote:

postierich wrote:Aye up GBV any pics before I waste a lot of time having banter with you

I have...but no idea how to add them even after reading the how to insert pictures post. Not sure what click the bending thing on the bottom right means. Bottom right of what? Tried on my pictures on my laptop and on my phone and no idea what the instructions mean!

Your photos have to be somewhere "public" so something like Flikr or Imgur. Do a search on "photo hosting". Your phone/PC/laptop aren't public.

postierich wrote:If you are anything like these ladies you will fit in fine here
Untitled by Richard Munro, on Flickr

Haha...We've just been plotting and buying bike packing stuff over chinese tonight...Minus the beards

pistonbroke wrote:Is that the Scottish ZZ Top tribute band?

Worse. Last years Single Speed event. Rich taped my gears up on my MTB and sent me out to drink ale and whiskey en route

That photo is amazingly reminiscent of the "are there any women here today?" scene from Life Of Brian as discussed recently! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRnyfVgQbXk.

"taped my gears up on my MTB and sent me out to drink ale and whiskey en route" - yep, you'll fit right in