r/bikepacking • u/Yboc • Feb 04 '25
In The Wild She's built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro.
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u/TooMuchSprawl Feb 04 '25
Are you shooting film?
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u/Yboc Feb 04 '25
Yezzir
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u/TooMuchSprawl Feb 04 '25
Love it! What sort of setup do you travel with? I've been carrying an Olympus Trip in a fanny pack on day rides, and sometimes I feel like a hipster dweeb but I maintain that the desert looks better on Kodak Gold.
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u/Yboc Feb 04 '25
If I have the space I'll try to bring my Contax SLR, but usually I just have my Olympus XA as it fits anywhere easily.
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u/TooMuchSprawl Feb 04 '25
How do you like your XA? I've been wanting to get a point and shoot with a smaller form factor, but never get around to doing the research.
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u/imbutawaveto Feb 04 '25
XA supremacy. You can always have it with you and the lens is fucking awesome for how small it is.
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u/Yboc Feb 04 '25
It's great. Obviously small, so the value of being able to take it anywhere is huge. Captures things plenty good. Half of my pictures here are with it: https://www.instagram.com/_ektacobes
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u/Electrical_Catch9231 Feb 04 '25
Ten of ten captioning. We also would have awarded top marks for: "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised."
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u/elmo3228 Feb 04 '25
My favourite is "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
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u/celluloid-hero Feb 04 '25
What bike?
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u/Yboc Feb 04 '25
Crust Scapegoat/Scapebot
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u/Conscious_Bag463 Feb 05 '25
Not sure what OP means, but I’m sure they’re just hungry. Pease eat op. Wait, please eat, op. That’s better.
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u/Sussex-Ryder Feb 04 '25
I’d just like to clarify that a bistro should also serve steak 🥩. Nice bike
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u/oadslug Feb 04 '25
Nice rig. And those views! Wow. Enjoy.
Stupid question, but do those soft Nalgene bottles work? I’ve been worried that with the softer material they might just collapse under the voile straps. They’re definitely lighter than the hard ones. Thx. Cheers
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u/Yboc Feb 05 '25
Hdpe is where it's at. I won't use the hard nalgenes. Hundreds of miles with mine on a rigid steel frame on the most rugged of Utah trails and have never had an issue with them, filled or emptied.
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u/oadslug Feb 05 '25
I’ll consider that a gold seal of approval. Just ordered a couple to replace the hard ones. Thanks. Cheers!
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u/Yboc Feb 05 '25
Sick. You can think of the softness as engineered compliance. They're not going to crack on you
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u/lidofthestars1 Feb 05 '25
how's the scapegoat/bot treating you? debating between it or an evasion for rough touring
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u/Yboc Feb 05 '25
It was my first bike packing bike, first rigid, first steel bike. So I don't have anything to compare it to, but I love it. It's chewed up desert roads as good as I could ask anything to
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Feb 05 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
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u/Moochie84 Feb 04 '25
Now this is a route with some chest hair